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itchy, a. Now colloq.|ˈɪtʃɪ|
[f. itch n. + -y. The form appears in OE. as ᵹicciᵹ glossing ‘putridus, purulentus’ Hpt. Gl. 453.]
Affected with itching or the itch; of the nature of the itch.
1530Palsgr. 316/2 Itche [mispr. for itchie or itchye] or ytchefull, grateux. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Galleux, scabbed, itchie. 1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 253/2 When any yonge Personne is Itchye, let him laye of this pouldre in water, and the water wilbe like oyle. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 201 His leaues or rootes applyed to itchie places..doe great good vnto the same. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Itch, All Itchy humour will come out and be dry'd up entirely. a1829J. Young Intell. Philos. xxxv. (1835) 350 Your elbow is itchy and your toe is sore.
fig.1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. iii. ii, A third..takes the coming gold..That hourly rubs his dry and itchy palms. 1784Cowper Task iv. 582 Excess, the scrofulous and itchy plague.
▸ itchy feet n. (also occas. in sing.) a sense of boredom or restlessness causing a desire to travel, move on, or experience something different; freq. in to have (also get) itchy feet.
1920Los Angeles Times 25 Apr. (Magazine section) 4/1 Some day an *itchy foot will give you a desire to travel and see as much as possible of this world before you are hurried into the next. 1940Nevada: Guide to Silver State i. 59 When a prospector admits he is ‘bitten by the bug’, or has ‘itchy feet’ the man he approaches stiffens himself against an appeal for a grubstake—food, money, transportation, or all three. 1979Economist (Nexis) 6 Oct. 62 Those who expect to move become less committed to their jobs. Already some of the present commissioners seem to be suffering an attack of itchy feet. 2002Wanderlust Feb.–Mar. 96/1 Anyone reading of..her curiosity about the world and her desire to get abroad and start exploring is bound to identify with her itchy feet, and feel her wanderlust for themselves. |