scritch

plural scritches

1. obsoletea screech

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

   1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel

2. UKdialectalobsoleteA thrush.

present singular third person scritches · participle present scritching · participle past scritched · past scritched

1. obsoleteTo screech.

present singular third person scritches · participle present scritching · participle past scritched · past scritched

1. To make a light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing.
2. To scratch so as to relieve an itch or irritation.

   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, →ISBN, page 55

   1 more example

   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, →ISBN

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?

   2015 -, L. A. Kornetsky, Clawed: A Gin & Tonic Mystery, →ISBN, page 79

plural scritches

1. A light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing.
2. The act of scratching an itch.
3. The act of petting an animal or human in a scratching manner.

   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, →ISBN

   2 more examples

   “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, →ISBN

   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, →ISBN, page 79