1 [V] to have an uncomfortable feeling on your skin that makes you want to scratch; to make your skin feel like this:
I itch all over. * Does the rash itch? * This sweater really itches.
2 ~ for sth / to do sth (informal) (often used in the progressive tenses) to want to do sth very much:
[V] The crowd was itching for a fight. * [Vtoinf] He's itching to get back to work.
Part of speech: noun
1 [C,usually sing.] an uncomfortable feeling on your skin that makes you want to scratch yourself:
to get / have an itch
2 [sing.] ~ (to do sth) (informal) a strong desire to do sth:
She has an itch to travel. * the creative itch
IDIOMS see SEVEN
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for itch is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is itch a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, itch is tagged as verb.
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