Middle English Dictionary Entry
yicching ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | yicching ger. Also yecching, ȝechinge, ichching, isching, itchinge, hechinge, (early) ȝicchunge & (?errors) iȝcching, ychgynge, ychgyn, (error) ȝythyn; pl. icching(e)s, (?error) ychgyns. |
| Etymology | From yicchen v. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. yukinge ger.
1.
An itch; a sensation or sensations of itching; also in fig. context [1st quot.]; ~ of wormes, itching caused by worms; ?also, the causing of itching by worms [quot. c1425].
Associated quotations
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)123/25 : Hwil þe ȝicchunge [Pep: ȝechinge] least, hit þuncheð god to gnuddin, ah þrefter me feleð hit bitterliche smeorten.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Deut.28.27 : Smyte þe þe lord wiþ þe bule of Egipt & þe parte of þe body by þe whiche tordys been shetyn out wiþ scab forsoþe & ychgynge [vr. itchynge; WB(2) vr. iȝcching].
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)359/32 : Hechinge and smertinge of yȝen comen somtyme of outward þinges.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)2450 : Thanne agayne shall come to thee Sighes and pleyntes, with newe woo, That no yecchyng prikketh soo.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)77b : Yf a man haue eny scabbis oþer ycchings, stamp the sede of this erbe [saxifrage] with portulake and with oyle and anoynte the body ther with.
- a1425 *Trev.Barth.(Mrg M 875)26b/b : Sum tyme þe synewis of herynge beþ greuid by icchynge & fretynge of wormes [L ex titillacione uermium et corrosione].
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)538 : Ȝykynge, or ȝykth’e [Win: yschyng]: Pruritus.
- c1450 Agnus Castus (Bod 483)156/14 : Ychgyns [vr. ychchyng; Stockh: Þe jows of þis herbe…distroyeth…ȝowȝte].
- c1450 Agnus Castus (Bod 483)174/28 : Hyt doþe a-waye þe ychgyn [Stockh: It wele distroye ewel ȝowȝte].
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)193/6 : For…ȝythyn [?read: ȝychyn] of the eys.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)170/522 : An oþ’ for ichynge of wormys: where so itt be enoynt the place that echith wt the juse of germandre or cormodrios or with the juyse of the beries of petymorell and itt sleth & doth away the echynge.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)4.287 : Herode…was vexede with…grete ycchenge.
- a1500 Agnus Castus (Hrl 3840)203/2 : Þe jcchynges shal go awey.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. itching.