Itchy vs Pitchy - What's the difference?
itchy | pitchy |
Having or creating an itch, causing a person or animal to tend to want to scratch.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.
Very dark black; pitch-black.
*1843 , '', book 2, ch. 5, ''Twelfth Century
(music) Off pitch; out of tune.
As adjectives the difference between itchy and pitchy
is that itchy is having or creating an itch, causing a person or animal to tend to want to scratch while pitchy is of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.itchy
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Adjective
(er)Derived terms
* itchy feet * itchy trigger fingerReferences
* The Australian Concise Oxford Dictionarypitchy
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Adjective
(er)- gurgles, twice in the four-and-twenty hours, with eddying brine, clangorous with sea-fowl; and is a ''Lither''-Pool, a ''lazy or sullen Pool, no monstrous pitchy City, and Seahaven of the world!