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itchsome

adj

Etymology

From itch + -some.

  1. inherited from *jukjǭ✻ — “itch”
  2. inherited from ġiċċe — “itch”
  3. inherited from icche
  4. suffixed as itchsome — “itch + some”

Definitions

  1. Characterised or marked by itching

    • These creatures have their bodies covered with itchsome warts which made it impossible for an Agbufu to stop scratching its body.
    • There were a mixture of local people with cold, pinched faces and skint and harassed looking tourists sitting around fondling their itchsome facial hair, their tongues lolling into fizzy yellow pints of lager.
    • He rubbed the toe of his dancing pump on an itchsome spot on the back of his silk- clad calf.

  2. Irritating

    Irritating; annoying

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for itchsome. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA