scritch

noun

1. (obsolete)a screech

   “Perhaps it is the owlet's scritch: For what can aid the mastiff bitch ?”

2. (UK, dialectal, obsolete)A thrush.
3. A light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing.
4. The act of scratching an itch.
5. The act of petting an animal or human in a scratching manner.

   “Sugar demands scritches alternating with sinking her beak into my fingers because I'm not doing it to suit her.”

   ““It really does have to work out,” she said, setting Toby's carrier up on the kitchen table. “Because otherwise you'll be reduced to standing on a street corner and offering kitty head scritches for money. And none of us want to see you stoop that low."”

   “And they almost always gave good scritches, so they couldn't be bad people, could they? Did bad people scritch right?”

verb

1. (obsolete)To screech.
2. To make a light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing.
3. To scratch so as to relieve an itch or irritation.

   “One day a tiny insect, no bigger than a freckle, climbs into Miss Calypso's classroom. Nobody notices until Polly scritches, Joshua scratches and soon the whole class is scritching and scratching”

   “There once was a cat with a terrible itch. She had a flea in her fur which was making her twitch. She scratched herself here and she scritched herself there”

4. To pet an animal or human in a scratching manner.

   “And they almost always gave good scritches, so they couldn't be bad people, could they? Did bad people scritch right?”