scritch
/skɹɪt͡ʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.16 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To make a light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing.
verb
To scratch so as to relieve an itch or irritation.
verb
To pet an animal or human in a scratching manner.
noun
A light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing.
noun
The act of scratching an itch.
Example Sentences
- "Perhaps it is the owlet's scritch: For what can aid the mastiff bitch ?"
- "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"
- "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"
- "And they almost always gave good scritches, so they couldn't be bad people, could they? Did bad people scritch right?"
- "Sugar demands scritches alternating with sinking her beak into my fingers because I'm not doing it to suit her."
- "“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.""