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scritch
/skɹɪt͡ʃ/
noun 5verb 4
Collocations
2ADJ.
bad, right
SCRITCH + NOUN
kitties
Definitions
noun
1
a screech
Perhaps it is the owlet's scritch: For what can aid the mastiff bitch ?
2
A thrush.
verb
1
To screech.
verb
1
To make a light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing.
2
To scratch so as to relieve an itch or irritation.
One day a tiny insect, no bigger than a freckle, climbs into Miss Calypso's classroom. Nobody notices until Polly scritches, Joshua scratches and soon the whole class is scritching and scratching
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
3
To pet an animal or human in a scratching manner.
And they almost always gave good scritches, so they couldn't be bad people, could they? Did bad people scritch right?
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Perhaps it is the owlet's scritch: For what can aid the mastiff bitch ?
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One day a tiny insect, no bigger than a freckle, climbs into Miss Calypso's classroom. Nobody notices until Polly scritches, Joshua scratches and soon the whole class is scritching and scratching
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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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And they almost always gave good scritches, so they couldn't be bad people, could they? Did bad people scritch right?
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Sugar demands scritches alternating with sinking her beak into my fingers because I'm not doing it to suit her.
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“It really does have to work out,” she said, setting Toby's carrier up on the kitchen table. “Because otherwise you'll be reduced to standing on a street corner and offering kitty head scritches for m
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