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"Needing a scratch"2 answers
itchy5 lettersitching7 letters
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Definitions
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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01“Needing a scratch”7 letters
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