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itchsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From itch + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by itching
   • There were a mixture of local people with cold, pinched faces and skint and harassed looking tourists sitting around fondling their itchsome facial hair, their tongues lolling into fizzy yellow pints of lager. 2000, Tim Bradford, Is Shane MacGowan still alive?:
   • These creatures have their bodies covered with itchsome warts which made it impossible for an Agbufu to stop scratching its body. 1998, Ephraim Eze Okwor, A Riddle for the Gods:
   • He rubbed the toe of his dancing pump on an itchsome spot on the back of his silk- clad calf. 2006, Barbara Satow, A Game of Pleasure:
   • Their dresses were wrinkled and sticky and itchsome. 2011 (original 2001), Geoff Schmidt, Out of Time
2. (broadly) Irritating; annoying
   • There's lovely touches all over the record, but with exception of 'Dance On', propelled by the most itchsome drum pattern since B Bumble & The Stingers, and 'Anna Stesia', a ballad of lust which builds inexorably from a simple keyboard figure, there's a feeling of incompleteness about the rest of the songs which is all the more frustrating. 1998, High Fidelity News, Record, Review:

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