Definition of Itch

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Definition of Itch

Itch

To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.

To have a constant desire or teasing uneasiness; to long for; as, itching ears.

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.

Any itching eruption.

A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that occasioned) by the itch eruption; -- called also scabies, psora, etc.

A constant irritating desire.

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Itch Quotations

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
Ogden Nash

I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
Gilda Radner

I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
Gilda Radner

I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.
Christopher Meloni

Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch.
Mark Davis

But by the time you get there and you get home, it winds up being a lot of time out. So I'm getting the itch to build, I know that. I keep looking at my stacks of wood and what I can do with it.
Guy Clark

Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.
T. E. Lawrence

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
Samuel Lover

Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
Kingsley Amis

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
Robert Penn Warren

Itch Translations

itch in Dutch is kriebelen, krieuwelen, jeuken
itch in German is juckt, jucken, jucken
itch in Italian is prudere
itch in Swedish is skabb, klia

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