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itch
CIDE DICTIONARY
itch, v. i. [OE. icchen, , AS. giccan; akin to D. jeuken, joken, G. jucken, OHG. jucchen.].
- To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected. [1913 Webster]"My mouth hath itched all this long day." [1913 Webster]
- To have a constant desire or teasing uneasiness; to long for; as, itching ears. Shak. [1913 Webster]
itch, n.
- An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic mite (the
Sarcoptes scabei ), and attended with itching. It is transmissible by contact. [1913 Webster] - Any itching eruption. [1913 Webster]
- A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that occasioned) by the itch eruption; -- called also
scabies ,psora , etc. [1913 Webster] - A constant irritating desire. [1913 Webster]"An itch of being thought a divine king." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
itch, n. & v.
--n.
1 an irritation in the skin.
2 an impatient desire; a hankering.
3 (prec. by the) (in general use) scabies.
--v.intr.
1 feel an irritation in the skin, causing a desire to scratch it.
2 (usu. foll. by to + infin.) (of a person) feel a desire to do something (am itching to tell you the news).
--n.
1 an irritation in the skin.
2 an impatient desire; a hankering.
3 (prec. by the) (in general use) scabies.
--v.intr.
1 feel an irritation in the skin, causing a desire to scratch it.
2 (usu. foll. by to + infin.) (of a person) feel a desire to do something (am itching to tell you the news).
Idiom
itching palm avarice. itch-mite a parasitic arthropod, Sarcoptes scabiei, which burrows under the skin causing scabies.
Etymology
OE gycce, gyccan f. WG
THESAURUS
itch
ache, acne, acne vulgaris, an universal wolf, andromania, aphrodisia, appetence, appetency, appetite, appetition, biological urge, bodily appetite, carnal desire, concupiscence, coveting, crave, craving, dermamycosis, dermatitis, dermatosis, desire, die, eczema, elephantiasis, epithelioma, eromania, eroticism, eroticomaniac, erotism, erotomania, erysipelas, erythema, exanthem, fidget, fleshly lust, furor uterinus, goatishness, gynecomania, hanker, hankering, have the fidgets, heat rash, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, hives, horniness, hot blood, hot pants, hunger, impetigo, indecency, infantile sexuality, irritation, itchiness, itching, jerk, jig, jigger, jigget, jiggle, jungle rot, lasciviousness, leprosy, libidinousness, lichen, lichen primus, lickerishness, longing, lupus, lupus vulgaris, lust, lustfulness, mania, miliaria, nymphomania, passion, pemphigus, pine, polymorphous perversity, prick, prickle, prickling, prickly heat, pruigo, prurience, pruriency, pruritus, psora, ringworm, satyriasis, satyrism, scabies, scratch, sexual desire, sexual longing, sexual passion, shingles, sigh, skin cancer, sting, tetter, thirst, thrill, tickle, tickling, tingle, tingling, twitch, urge, vellicate, venereal appetite, want, wish, yearn, yearning, yen, yeukROGET THESAURUS
itch
Disease
N disease, illness, sickness, ailing, all the ills that flesh is heir to, morbidity, morbosity, infirmity, ailment, indisposition, complaint, disorder, malady, distemper, distemperature, visitation, attack, seizure, stroke, fit, delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy, cachexia, atrophy, marasmus, indigestion, dyspepsia, decay, decline, consumption, palsy, paralysis, prostration, taint, pollution, infection, sepsis, septicity, infestation, epidemic, pandemic, endemic, epizootic, murrain, plague, pestilence, pox, sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil, pimple, wen, carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue, rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore, cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor, caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosy, eruption, rash, breaking out, fever, temperature, calenture, inflammation, ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis, Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera, biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea, blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash, breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever, heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy, hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis, cholera, asphyxia, chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre, enanthem, enanthema, erysipelas, exanthem, exanthema, gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness, grip, grippe, influenza, flu, hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw, measles, mumps, polio, necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough, yellow fever, yellow jack, fatal disease, dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough, general breaking up, break up of the system, idiocy insanity, martyr to disease, cripple, the halt the lame and the blind, valetudinary, valetudinarian, invalid, patient, case, sickroom, sick- chamber, pathology, etiology, nosology, anthrax, bighead, blackleg, blackquarter, cattle plague, glanders, mange, scrapie, milk sickness, heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms, quarter-evil, quarter-ill, rinderpest, virus, bacterium, bacteria, DNA virus, RNA virus, rhinovirus, rhabdovirus, picornavirus, herpesvirus, cytomegalovirus, CMV, human immunodefficiency virus, HIV, diseased, ailing, ill, ill of, taken ill, seized with, indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy, affected with illness, afflicted with illness, laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list, out of health, out of sorts, under the weather, valetudinary, unsound, unhealthy, sickly, morbid, morbose, healthless, infirm, chlorotic, unbraced, drooping, flagging, lame, crippled, halting, morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid, mangy, leprous, cankered, rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core, withered, palsied, paralytic, dyspeptic, luetic, pneumonic, pulmonic, phthisic, rachitic, syntectic, syntectical, tabetic, varicose, touched in the wind, broken-winded, spavined, gasping, hors de combat, weakly, weakened, decrepit, decayed, incurable, in declining health, cranky, in a bad way, in danger, prostrate, moribund, morbific epidemic, endemic, zymotic.Desire
N desire, wish, fancy, fantasy, want, need, exigency, mind, inclination, leaning, bent, animus, partiality, penchant, predilection, propensity, willingness, liking, love, fondness, relish, longing, hankering, inkling, solicitude, anxiety, yearning, coveting, aspiration, ambition, vaulting ambition, eagerness, zeal, ardor, empressement, breathless impatience, overanxiety, impetuosity, appetite, appetition, appetence, appetency, sharp appetite, keenness, hunger, stomach, twist, thirst, thirstiness, drouth, mouthwatering, itch, itching, prurience, cacoethes, cupidity, lust, concupiscence, edge of appetite, edge of hunger, torment of Tantalus, sweet tooth, lickerish tooth, itching palm, longing eye, wistful eye, sheep's eye, greed, voracity, passion, rage, furore, mania, manie, inextinguishable desire, dipsomania, kleptomania, lover, amateur, votary, devotee, aspirant, solicitant, candidate, applicant, supplicant, cormorant, desideratum, want, a consummation devoutly to be wished, attraction, magnet, allurement, fancy, temptation, seduction, fascination, prestige, height of one's ambition, idol, whim, whimsy, whimsey, maggot, hobby, hobby-horse, Fortunatus's cap, wishing cap, wishing stone, wishing well, desirous, desiring, inclined, partial to, fain, wishful, optative, anxious, wistful, curious, at a loss for, sedulous, solicitous, craving, hungry, sharp-set, peckish, ravening, with an empty stomach, esurient, lickerish, thirsty, athirst, parched with thirst, pinched with hunger, famished, dry, drouthy, hungry as a hunter, hungry as a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a church mouse, hungry as a bear, greedy, unsatisfied, unsated, unslaked, unsaturated, eager, avid, keen, burning, fervent, ardent, agog, all agog, breathless, impatient, bent on, intent on, set on, bent upon, intent upon, set upon, mad after, enrage, rabid, dying for, devoured by desire, aspiring, ambitious, vaulting, skyaspiring, high-reaching, desirable, desired, in demand, pleasing, appetizing, appetible, tantalizing, wistfully, fain, Int, would that, would that it were!, O for!, esto perpetual, the wish being father to the thought, sua cuique voluptas, hoc erat in votis, the mouth watering, the fingers itching, aut Caesar aut nullus, Cassius has a lean and hungry look, hungry as the grave, I was born to other things, not what we wish but what we want, such joy ambition finds, the sea hath bounds but deep desire hath none, ubi mel ibi apes.Sensations of Touch
VB itch, tingle, creep, thrill, sting, prick, prickle, tickle, titillate.Also see definition of "itch" in Bible Study Dictionaries
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