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scritch en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /skɹɪt͡ʃ/

Meanings

1. (obsolete) a screech
   • Perhaps it is the owlet's scritch: For what can aid the mastiff bitch ? 1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel:
2. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A thrush.

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scritch en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /skɹɪt͡ʃ/

Meanings

1. (obsolete) To screech.

Forms

scritch en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

Variant of scratch.

Meanings

1. A light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing.
2. The act of scratching an itch.
3. The act of petting an animal or human in a scratching manner.
   • Sugar demands scritches alternating with sinking her beak into my fingers because I'm not doing it to suit her. 2010, Marguerite Floyd, The Parrot Reckonings, →ISBN:
   • And they almost always gave good scritches, so they couldn't be bad people, could they? Did bad people scritch right? 2015 -, L. A. Kornetsky, Clawed: A Gin & Tonic Mystery, →ISBN, page 79:
   • “It really does have to work out,” she said, setting Toby's carrier up on the kitchen table. “Because otherwise you'll be reduced to standing on a street corner and offering kitty head scritches for money. And none of us want to see you stoop that low." 2015, Maisey Yates, Part Time Cowboy, →ISBN:

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scritch en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

Variant of scratch.

Meanings

1. To make a light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing.
2. To scratch so as to relieve an itch or irritation.
   • There once was a cat with a terrible itch. She had a flea in her fur which was making her twitch. She scratched herself here and she scritched herself there 2004, The Hutchinson Book of Cat Tales, →ISBN, page 55:
   • One day a tiny insect, no bigger than a freckle, climbs into Miss Calypso's classroom. Nobody notices until Polly scritches, Joshua scratches and soon the whole class is scritching and scratching 2001, Miriam Moss, Scritch Scratch, →ISBN:
3. To pet an animal or human in a scratching manner.
   • And they almost always gave good scritches, so they couldn't be bad people, could they? Did bad people scritch right? 2015 -, L. A. Kornetsky, Clawed: A Gin & Tonic Mystery, →ISBN, page 79:

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