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plural scritches
(obsolete) a screech quotations
Perhaps it is the owlet's scritch:For what can aid the mastiff bitch ?
1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A thrush.
third-person singular simple present scritches, present participle scritching, simple past and past participle scritched
(obsolete) To screech.
To make a light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing. examples
To scratch so as to relieve an itch or irritation. quotations examples
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
2001, Miriam Moss, Scritch Scratch
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
2004, The Hutchinson Book of Cat Tales, page 55
And they almost always gave good scritches, so they couldn't be bad people, could they? Did bad people scritch right?
2015 -, L. A. Kornetsky, Clawed: A Gin & Tonic Mystery, page 79
A light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing. examples
The act of scratching an itch. quotations examples
Sugar demands scritches alternating with sinking her beak into my fingers because I'm not doing it to suit her.
2010, Marguerite Floyd, The Parrot Reckonings
“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 money. And none of us want to see you stoop that low."
2015, Maisey Yates, Part Time Cowboy