scritch

/skɹɪt͡ʃ/

Etymology

Variant of scratch.

scritch means a screech. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

noun

a screech“Perhaps it is the owlet's scritch: For what can aid the mastiff bitch ?”
A thrush.
A light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing.
The act of scratching an itch.
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.”

To screech.
To make a light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing.
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”
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?”