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• an uncomfortable sensation on the skin that causes a desire to scratch.

Similar: tingling, irritation, itchiness, stinging, prickling, tickling, paraesthesia, formication,

• be the site of or cause an itch.

• "the bite itched like crazy"

Similar: tingle, be irritated, be itchy, sting, prickle, tickle,

Origin: Old English gycce (noun), gyccan (verb), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch jeuk (noun) and Dutch jeuken, German jucken (verb).