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Even in terms of short term effects, I've had plenty of MSG-free hot and sour soups that made my head itch.

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Quick take

a contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite; characterized by persistent itching and skin irritation; "he has a bad case of the itch"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of itch gathered in one view.

noun

a contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite; characterized by persistent itching and skin irritation; "he has a bad case of the itch"

noun

a strong restless desire; "why this urge to travel?"

noun

an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for itch.

noun

a contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite; characterized by persistent itching and skin irritation; "he has a bad case of the itch"

noun

a strong restless desire; "why this urge to travel?"

noun

an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch

verb

scrape or rub as if to relieve itching; "Don't scratch your insect bites!"

verb

have or perceive an itch; "I'm itching--the air is so dry!"

verb

cause to perceive an itch; "his skin itched"

verb

have a strong desire or urge to do something; "She is itching to start the project"; "He is spoiling for a fight"

Example sentences

Even in terms of short term effects, I've had plenty of MSG-free hot and sour soups that made my head itch.

Abstraction is an annoyance, and not knowing is like an itch that needs to be scratched.

The sometimes popular fail first / fail fast / iterate like crazy mantra makes me itch.

After you do the "forced" work, then maybe there is something that you could work on which is more a "scratch an itch" type of project.

That's helped to satisfy my writing itch, and my full-time job has helped to satisfy my "pay the bills" itch.

This is little 'scratch-your-own-itch' project I started working on about 9 months ago. Front end is GWT, back end is Java servlets.

Mostly he's a train nut and that scratched that itch but its great for bringing stuff in before storm season sets in.+1 on the local visitation.

There simply aren't enough dollars available for everyone to make a living scratching their own itch.

Scratching an itch that doesn't exist, with a name that makes it impossible to have an intelligent conversation around.

I built this to scratch my own itch, as somebody who frequently reads GitHub code and feels annoyed having to click countless of links to navigate through a large project.

Meanwhile, the stuff I did at work didn't actually scratch that itch: it was either huge franchise games I couldn't care less about or technology stack stuff that wasn't an actual game.

I thought open source was about "scratching your own itch", not "here's $20, scratch me"Open Source is about availability of the source code, not about paying for the development or not.

The first step in moving a standardized language forward is to have the vendors designing and adding non-standard extensions so that they can experiment with ways to "scratch the itch" they're feeling.

Scratch that itch.\n Take a break to hack that bitch.\n\n People hurt & need more meds,\n Hacker rather show his creds.\n Breakthrus needed by a sage,\n But iphone apps r all the rage.\n\n Enterprise really sucks\n Hackers never get those bucks.\n Web apps used to be the hack\n But mobile's got a "craftsman's" back.\n\n Analysis!\n Paralysis!\n Algorithms!\n Distillation!\n Interpretation!\n Compilation!\n \n Deployment to the cloud.\n Disruption now allowed.\n Users need a good solution\n But all they get is more polution.\n\n Something no one ever needed.\n HN front page: he succeeded.\n Nerdie homes must make a buck.\n Why?