ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Scritch

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /skɹɪt͡ʃ/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Scritch is a noun meaning To make a light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing.

Meaning

To make a light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing.

More Meanings

  1. To scratch so as to relieve an itch or irritation.
  2. To pet an animal or human in a scratching manner.
  3. A light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing.
  4. The act of scratching an itch.
  5. (obsolete) a screech
  6. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A thrush.
  7. (obsolete) To screech.

Example Sentences

Perhaps it is the owlet's scritch: For what can aid the mastiff bitch ?
Sugar demands scritches alternating with sinking her beak into my fingers because I'm not doing it to suit her.
And they almost always gave good scritches, so they couldn't be bad people, could they? Did bad people scritch right?
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

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Related dictionary entries include scratch, screak, screaking, screech, screeching, scrabbling.

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