See itchy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English *yicchy, *ȝicchi, from Old English ġiċċiġ (“itchy”), equivalent to itch + -y. Cognate with Scots yeukie (“itchy”), West Frisian jokkerich (“itchy”), Dutch jeukachtig and jeukerig (“itchy”).",
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"text": "an itchy rash",
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"ref": "1785, William Cowper, “Book IV. The Winter Evening.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 167:",
"text": "Excess, the scrophulous and itchy plague / That seizes first the opulent",
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"ref": "1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, New York: Knopf, Part 3, p. 243:",
"text": "Her heart kicked and an itchy burning in her throat made her swallow all her saliva away.",
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"Characterized by itching. (of a condition)"
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"text": "My nose always gets itchy the moment I put on my face mask.",
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"ref": "1659, Lyon Freeman, The Common-wealths Catechism, London: John Clowes, pages 15–16:",
"text": "Q. What do you mean by a natural, but sickly delight?\nA. I mean such a delight as Itchie people have to scratch, green-sickness Garles to eat coles and chalk, and those in a burning Fever, to drink cold drink.",
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"ref": "1869, John Tyndall, “Odds and Ends of Alpine Life”, in Littel’s Living Age, Series 4, Vol. 13, No. 1303, p. 471:",
"text": "I heard the trumpet of its famous mosquito, but did not feel its attacks; still the itchy hillocks on my hands for some days afterwards reported the venom of the insect.",
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{
"ref": "2009, Tash Aw, chapter 34, in Map of the Invisible World, New York: Spiegel & Grau, published 2010, page 314:",
"text": "[…] the hot, dusty air swept in through the open windows and made Adam’s eyes itchy and teary.",
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"text": "He refuses to wear the new sweater; he says it’s itchy.",
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"ref": "1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 1, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 4:",
"text": "the itchy sound, the brisk and scratchy sound, of combing hairs out of a stiff brush",
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"ref": "1958, Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Penguin, published 1961, page 9:",
"text": "It was one room crowded with attic furniture, a sofa and fat chairs upholstered in that itchy, particular red velvet that one associates with hot days on a train.",
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},
{
"ref": "1973, Maria Campbell, chapter 5, in Halfbreed,, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, page 44:",
"text": "I remember only the ugly black stockings, woolly and very itchy, and the little red tam I had to wear and how much I hated it.",
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"ref": "1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 26, in The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Viking, published 1958, page 526:",
"text": "Casy said softly, “All of ’em’s itchy. Them cops been sayin’ how they’re gonna beat the hell outa us an’ run us outa the county. […]”",
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"text": "1966, Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Chapter 16, in Worlds of If, Volume 16, No. 1, Issue 98, January, 1966, p. 77,\n[…] I got itchy wondering whether I could go inside Complex without being nabbed."
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"ref": "1988, Edmund White, chapter 4, in The Beautiful Room Is Empty, London: Pan Books, page 87:",
"text": "At first I’d feel lonely, afraid, itchy, very afraid to go on with my story, afraid it wasn’t any good, afraid it was terrific and I was about to spoil it, afraid it was better than I understood and I would never know how to equal it again […]",
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},
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"ref": "2003, Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved, London: Hodder & Stoughton, Part 1, p. 89:",
"text": "Chasing after the stories about those girls in the ward made me itchy and restless.",
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"word": "nervous"
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"ref": "1876, Robert Browning, Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper, Boston: James R. Osgood, published 1877, page 17:",
"text": "Who simply stares and listens / Tongue-tied, while eye nor glistens / Nor brow grows hot and twitchy, / Nor mouth, for a combat itchy, / Quivers with some convincing / Reply",
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"ref": "1939, Raymond Chandler, chapter 7, in Trouble Is My Business, Philadelphia: Curtis Publishing:",
"text": "“So I went over to see Miss Huntress and after a lot of finagling around with this itchy-handed house dick I got to see her and we had a chat […]”",
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"ref": "1982, Anne Tyler, chapter 10, in Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, New York: Knopf, published 1989, page 282:",
"text": "By now, Pearl would have been out the door and halfway down the steps, reaching for the three of them with those eager, itchy fingers of hers.",
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},
{
"ref": "2014, Ana Castillo, Give It to Me, New York: Feminist Press, Part 1, Chapter 14, p. 60:",
"text": "She’d forgotten about the box […]. Not until Palma was home did she start getting itchy to open it before Christmas, but in the end she put it away unopened.",
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}
],
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"ref": "1923, Samuel Hopkins Adams, chapter 12, in Flaming Youth, New York: Boni and Liveright, page 129:",
"text": "They are curious with the itchy curiosity of their explorative time of life, and they have no proper guidance.",
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},
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"ref": "1951, William Styron, chapter 6, in Lie Down in Darkness, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, pages 309–310:",
"text": "A bachelor at sixty-eight and an uneasy drinker, Holcomb was seized with an itchy, reminiscent lust whenever he drank too much […]",
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},
{
"ref": "2016, Joe Okonkwo, chapter 41, in Jazz Moon, New York: Kensington:",
"text": "With peace gone he was left with plain old boredom, and not the clean kind. But the itchy, restless kind that begged to be filled.",
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}
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"ref": "c. 1623 (date written; published 1653), Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Thomas Dekker, John Ford, “The Spanish Gipsy”, in A[rthur] H[enry] Bullen, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton […] (The English Dramatists), volume VI, London: John C. Nimmo […], published 1885, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i, page 193:",
"text": "Car[dochia]. That slave in obscene language courted me, / Drew reals out, and would have bought my body, / Diego, from thee. / Die[go]. Is he so itchy? I'll cure him.",
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{
"ref": "1640, Nathanael Richards, Messallina, London: Daniel Frere, act I, scene 1:",
"text": "what’s all the delight, / That seemes so pleasing to the itchie whorer?",
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}
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"(figurative, derogatory, obsolete) Feeling or showing a high level of sexual interest."
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