The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scritch \Scritch\, n. A screech. [R.]
Perhaps it is the owlet's scritch.
--Coleridge.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see screech.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context obsolete English) a screech vb. (context obsolete English) To screech. Etymology 2
vb. To scratch an itch.
Usage examples of "scritch".
Yassum, us allus did git moughty oneasy ef er scritch owl hollered et night.
Wolf expertly bent his fingers around the burin as it scritched on the flat bone he held.
I asked, giving Pax another scritch and wondering for the millionth time whether Ixil got the same scritch through their neural link.
Chuckling, he scritched her head, and she thumped her tail in delight.
Wolf expertly bent his fingers around the burin as it scritched on the flat bone he held.
All work ceased, clerics scritching and scratching with pens, women and men arguing over the worth of their trade goods, merchants counting by means of beads.
Rokey scratched at the dense, black fur on his jaw, needing the reassurance of the familiar sensation and the soothing scritching sound that was conducted through his jawbone to his ultra-sensitive ears.
The click of clawtips against oak, the scritch of the pen nib leaving crisp black lines across the sepia complaints beneath, and the sputtering pine knot that lighted the cabin wove themselves into a sinister unity that was darker than the nighted forest outside.
He stuck his nose under my palm and asked for more scritches while he spoke.
If he was human, he'd shrug, but being a cat, he absent mindedly scritches behind his left ear with a hind leg.