Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or causing an itching sensation.
- adjective Restless or nervous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characterized by or having an itching sensation.
- Having the itch: as, an itchy beggar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Infected with the itch.
- adjective Having an itching sensation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having or creating an
itch , causing a person or animal to tend to want toscratch .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective nervous and unable to relax
- adjective causing an irritating cutaneous sensation; being affect with an itch
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Examples
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Being spotty and itchy is not a good look, even if the colour does match my new shoes.
Archive 2008-06-01 Another Outspoken Female 2008
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I think what gets me feeling itchy is all that emphasis on the facts of a life, while all the juicy, relevant, human oddity stuff gets left on the cutting room floor.
Libba Bray biography 2005
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Anal itching, also known as itchy bottom, pruritus ani or anusitis, is irritation and sometimes inflammation of the anus - located at the exit of the rectum.
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Anal itching, also known as itchy bottom, pruritus ani or anusitis, is irritation and sometimes inflammation of the anus - located at the exit of the rectum.
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Anal itching, also known as itchy bottom, pruritus ani or anusitis, is irritation and sometimes inflammation of the anus - located at the exit of the rectum.
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Anal itching, also known as itchy bottom, pruritus ani or anusitis, is irritation and sometimes inflammation of the anus - located at the exit of the rectum.
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Anal itching, also known as itchy bottom, pruritus ani or anusitis, is irritation and sometimes inflammation of the anus - located at the exit of the rectum.
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Anal itching, also known as itchy bottom, pruritus ani or anusitis, is irritation and sometimes inflammation of the anus - located at the exit of the rectum.
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Anal itching, also known as itchy bottom, pruritus ani or anusitis, is irritation and sometimes inflammation of the anus - located at the exit of the rectum.
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Anal itching, also known as itchy bottom, pruritus ani or anusitis, is irritation and sometimes inflammation of the anus - located at the exit of the rectum.
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