Itching

itching
    n 1: an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to
         scratch [syn: {itch}, {itchiness}, {itching}]
    

Itch \Itch\ ([i^]ch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Itched} ([i^]cht); p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Itching}.] [OE. icchen, [yogh]icchen, AS.
   giccan; akin to D. jeuken, joken, G. jucken, OHG. jucchen.]
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   1. To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines
      the person to scratch the part affected.
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            My mouth hath itched all this long day. --Chaucer.
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   2. To have a constant desire or teasing uneasiness; to long
      for; as, itching ears. "An itching palm." --Shak.
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135 Moby Thesaurus words for "itching":
      abscess, aching for, ague, an universal wolf, anemia, ankylosis,
      anoxia, apnea, appetence, appetency, appetite, appetition,
      asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, athirst, atrophy, backache, bent on,
      bleeding, blennorhea, cachexia, cachexy, chill, chills, colic,
      concupiscent, constipation, consumed with desire, convulsion,
      coughing, coveting, craving, crazy to, cyanosis, desirous of,
      devoured by desire, diarrhea, dizziness, dropsy, dying for,
      dying to, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, ejaculatory,
      emaciation, fain of, fainting, fatigue, fervid, fever,
      fibrillation, flux, fond of, goatish, growth, hemorrhage,
      high blood pressure, horny, hot, hot-blooded, hunger, hungering,
      hungry, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus,
      inclined toward, indigestion, inflammation, insomnia, itch,
      itchiness, itching for, itchy, jaundice, keen on,
      labored breathing, lascivious, leaning toward, libidinous,
      lickerish, low blood pressure, lumbago, lustful, mad on,
      mad with lust, mania, marasmus, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis,
      orgasmic, orgastic, pain, paralysis, partial to, passionate,
      prurience, pruriency, prurient, pruritus, randy, rash, rheum,
      salacious, sclerosis, seizure, set on, sex-starved, sexual desire,
      sexy, shock, skin eruption, sneezing, sore, spasm, spoiling for,
      steamy, tabes, tachycardia, thirst, thirsting, thirsty, tumor,
      unsatisfied, upset stomach, vertigo, vomiting, wasting, wild to,
      yeuk