Meaning of scritch | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a screech
   obsolete
2. A light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing.
3. A thrush.
   UK, dialectal, obsolete
4. The act of scratching an itch.
5. The act of petting an animal or human in a scratching manner.

Examples

“Perhaps it is the owlet's scritch: For what can aid the mastiff bitch ?”

“Sugar demands scritches alternating with sinking her beak into my fingers because I'm not doing it to suit her.”

““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."”

“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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