itchsome

English

Etymology

From itch +‎ -some.

Adjective

itchsome (comparative more itchsome, superlative most itchsome)

1. Characterised or marked by itching
   • 1998, Ephraim Eze Okwor, A Riddle for the Gods:

     These creatures have their bodies covered with itchsome warts which made it impossible for an Agbufu to stop scratching its body.

   • 2000, Tim Bradford, Is Shane MacGowan still alive?:

     There were a mixture of local people with cold, pinched faces and skint and harassed looking tourists sitting around fondling their itchsome facial hair, their tongues lolling into fizzy yellow pints of lager.

   • 2006, Barbara Satow, A Game of Pleasure:

     He rubbed the toe of his dancing pump on an itchsome spot on the back of his silk- clad calf.

   • 2011 (original 2001), Geoff Schmidt, Out of Time:

     Their dresses were wrinkled and sticky and itchsome.

2. (by extension) Irritating; annoying
   • 1998, High Fidelity News, Record, Review:

     There's lovely touches all over the record, but with exception of 'Dance On', propelled by the most itchsome drum pattern since B Bumble & The Stingers, and 'Anna Stesia', a ballad of lust which builds inexorably from a simple keyboard figure, there's a feeling of incompleteness about the rest of the songs which is all the more frustrating.

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