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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
itchy
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
itchy (=making you want to scratch)
▪ The cream made my skin feel itchy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
foot
▪ Armchair travellers will be riveted to their seats while the more adventurous will get itchy feet.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an itchy sweater
▪ I feel terrible and my eyes are itchy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Enlarged lymph nodes; light sweat and low fever; can be itchy when warm.
▪ Even when all sign of life had gone I kept on feeling itchy.
▪ It may also appear on other parts of the body in the form of an itchy rash known as ringworm.
▪ Sometimes nurses tied down the arms of children who insisted on ripping off the thick, itchy rags.
▪ They are so itchy that I scratch myself hard.
▪ Two years later, however, Mark found himself feeling itchy again.
▪ You may also have a dry irritating cough, a sore throat and a runny, itchy nose.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Itchy

Itchy \Itch"y\, a.

  1. Infected with the itch.
    --Cowper.

  2. Having an itching sensation.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
itchy

Old English giccig; see itch + -y (2). Figurative itchy palm is attested by 1590s. Related: Itchiness.

Wiktionary
itchy

a. Having or creating an itch, causing a person or animal to tend to want to scratch.

WordNet
itchy

adj. unable to relax or be still; "a constant fretful stamping of hooves"; "itchy for excitement"; "a restless child" [syn: fidgety, fretful, restless]

Wikipedia
Itchy

Itchy may refer to:

  • The feeling of an itch
  • A fictional animated mouse in The Itchy & Scratchy Show, the show-within-a-show on The Simpsons
  • Attichitcuk, Chewbacca's father in 1978's ''The Star Wars Holiday Special, nicknamed "Itchy"
  • Itchy, villain from the Dick Tracy comic strip
  • Itchy Itchiford, a character from All Dogs Go to Heaven
  • "Itchy", an episode of the television series Zoboomafoo

Usage examples of "itchy".

Her hands were sweating under them, and would likely be puckered, but at least they would not be dry and flaky and itchy at work on Monday.

On the far right of the store, there are wads of thick gray and pink blankets which have a special itchy smell to them and the smell makes you think of the feeling of catching rough skin against polyester.

Her three little boys do not have itchy bums and worms and bites up their arms from fleas.

Ah, how blissful is the unknowing mind, what joy to be ignorant of itchy slippery letters.

It felt stiff and itchy, though he knew that was only his imagination.

Slowly her chin sagged down to her chest, and she closed her eyes to imprison the itchy tears beneath the lids, but one of them squeezed through and quivered like a fat, glistening grape on her lashes, before falling to splash on the stone floor.

My wounds were healing, and after a week I was itchy to go back on duty.

I started to get itchy, so I went inside and puttered around the living room, thumbing through magazines, checking out the bookshelves for something to read.

He seemed relaxed but itchy underneath, with his old jocular front back in place.

Going off-duty at midnight, I was always itchy, restless, in no mood to go home and sleep.

Wet clothes clinging to her skin called up a strange sensation, almost as if something lying dormant beneath her skin stirred for a moment, tried to break through her pores, then subsided, leaving her itchy and tender and very irritable.

The thought of being cumbered and weighed down by those layers and layers of itchy homespun was depressing indeed.

She had intended to let the soldiers win some of the tobacco back, but the longer he stayed, the more heated and itchy and the less charitable she felt.

And she had a headache, a burning nose, and itchy eyes from the lint and the strong smell of the fabric dyes.

Sarah Woolf pasted on the inside of the door of my mind, so that whenever I yanked it open, to think of anything - afternoon television, smoking a cigarette in the lavatory at the end of the ward, scratching an itchy toe - there she was, smiling and scowling at me simultaneously?