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itching

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"Needing a scratch"

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈɪt͡ʃɪŋ/Part of speech nounSorted cghiintStarts with IEnds with G1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch

Word origin

From Middle English ecchinge, ȝitchinge, ʒicchinde, ʒichande (also unassibilated as yckyng), from Old English ġiċċende (“itching”), from Proto-West Germanic *jukkjandi, present participle of *jukkjan (“to itch”), equivalent to itch + -ing.

Used in a sentence

  • Itchings, hitherto unknown, are felt all over the body, and render my skin sometimes painfully tender, sometimes quite benumbed, as if it were dead.

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