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Itch vs Liking - What's the difference?

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Itch is a related term of liking.


As nouns the difference between itch and liking

is that itch is a sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch while liking is likeness.

As a verb itch

is to feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.

itch

English

(wikipedia itch)

Alternative forms

* (noun) (l), (l), (l) (in Scotland)

Noun

(es)
  • A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch.
  • A desire or want.
  • *

    • Derived terms

    * barber's itch * itchy * jock itch * seven-year itch

    Verb

    (es)
  • To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.
  • *
    • Capulet: ... Speak not, reply not, do not answer me; / My fingers itch . Wife, we scarce thought us blest / That God had lent us but this only child; / But now I see this one is one too much, / And that we have a curse in having her: / Out on her, hilding!
  • To want or desire.
    • He started learning to drive and he has been itching for opportunities to practice ever since.
  • To cause to feel an itch.
  • (colloquial) To scratch or rub so as to relieve an itch.
  • * 2002 , M D Huddleston, Missing Paige :
    • "What makes you suspect him?" Max asked as he itched his neck.
  • * 2002 January 4, "Cyd" (username), Itching'', in alt.support.mult-sclerosis, ''Usenet :
    • I have to take both shoes and socks off! If I go bare foot I'm ok! I also get itching on my r/palm of my hand. I itch it so much that it's raw!
  • * 2003 November 21, "Jim Patterson" (username), Behavior Therapy for Itchy Clothes?'', in alt.support.ocd, ''Usenet :
    • Basically I go through a half hour of trying to figure out of it is an fake OCD itch or a regular itch before I itch it (if I determine it's a "fake" itch, then I try not to itch it).
  • * 2003 , Ray Emerson, The Riddle of Cthulhu :
    • Ulysses thumped his side and itched his back side, then slipped into his car.
  • * 2004 , Philip Smucker, Al Qaeda's Great Escape: The Military and the Media on Terror's Trail :
    • But when we asked more about the famous man whose specter still commanded the heights, the guard just sneered at me, pointed his gun back toward the road with one hand, and itched his chin with the other.

    Derived terms

    * make one's teeth itch

    Anagrams

    * *

    liking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A like; a predilection.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=September 15 , author=Amy Lawrence , title=Arsenal's Gervinho enjoys the joy of six against lowly Southampton , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=The Ivorian is a player with such a liking for improvisation it does not usually look like he has any more idea than anyone else what he is going to do next, so it was an interesting choice.}}
  • * (John Stuart Mill)
    • The likings and dislikings of society, or of some powerful portion of it, are thus the main thing which has practically determined the rules laid down for general observance, under the penalties of law or opinion.

    Derived terms

    * for one's liking * to one's liking * take a liking to