From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishitchitch1 /ɪtʃ/ ●○○ verb 1 [intransitive, transitive]FEEL HOT/COLD/TIRED ETC if part of your body or your clothes itch, you have an unpleasant feeling on your skin that makes you want to rub it with your nails → scratch My feet were itching terribly. The label on this shirt itches me.2 → be itching to do something/be itching for something→ See Verb table
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itch• My back itches.• I just wanted to stop itching and sleep.• No doubt he had observed her talking to the Shergolds and was itching for the chance to find out what she knew.• These pants itch me.• It was something which Morton itched to do - perhaps only because he knew it was impossible.• And I positively itched to grab the oars and row, row, row.• Once a week or so accordion music sounds will make feet itch under a canopy of stars in the tiny village square.• His body itched where the cotton touched it.itchitch2 noun [singular] 1 FEEL HOT/COLD/TIRED ETCan uncomfortable feeling on your skin that makes you want to rub it with your nails Scratch my back – I have an itch.2 informalWANT a strong desire to do or have somethingitch for an itch for adventureExamples from the Corpus
itch• Feeling an itch under her waistband, Fourth Aunt reached down and plucked out something fat and meaty.• She could feel a strange tugging, almost like an itch inside her head.• Now the buds are blossoming and the cricketing itch is gnawing at our stomachs.• But a familiar itch was making itself felt.• But when you came to hunt for this particular itch, it was always the next regiment that had it.• A tearful itch tickled my lids as spoked hangovers flashed past.Origin itch1 Old English giccan 