itchy

1. (figurative) In a state of agitation; easily alarmed.Examples: "Casy said softly, “All of ’em’s itchy. Them cops been sayin’ how they’re gonna beat the hell outa us an’ run us outa the county. […]”"; "1966, Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Chapter 16, in Worlds of If, Volume 16, No. 1, Issue 98, January, 1966, p. 77, […] I got itchy wondering whether I could go inside Complex without being nabbed."; "At first I’d feel lonely, afraid, itchy, very afraid to go on with my story, afraid it wasn’t any good, afraid it was terrific and I was about to spoil it, afraid it was better than I understood and I would never know how to equal it again […]"Synonyms: anxious, jittery, jumpy, nervous, on edgefiguratively

2. (figurative) Having a constant, teasing desire (for something, to do something); impatiently eager.Examples: "Who simply stares and listens / Tongue-tied, while eye nor glistens / Nor brow grows hot and twitchy, / Nor mouth, for a combat itchy, / Quivers with some convincing / Reply"; "“So I went over to see Miss Huntress and after a lot of finagling around with this itchy-handed house dick I got to see her and we had a chat […]”"; "By now, Pearl would have been out the door and halfway down the steps, reaching for the three of them with those eager, itchy fingers of hers."Synonyms: itchingfiguratively

3. (figurative) Causing a constant, teasing desire for something.Examples: "They are curious with the itchy curiosity of their explorative time of life, and they have no proper guidance."; "A bachelor at sixty-eight and an uneasy drinker, Holcomb was seized with an itchy, reminiscent lust whenever he drank too much […]"; "With peace gone he was left with plain old boredom, and not the clean kind. But the itchy, restless kind that begged to be filled."figuratively

4. (figurative, derogatory, obsolete) Feeling or showing a high level of sexual interest.Examples: "Car[dochia]. That slave in obscene language courted me, / Drew reals out, and would have bought my body, / Diego, from thee. / Die[go]. Is he so itchy? I'll cure him."; "what’s all the delight, / That seemes so pleasing to the itchie whorer?"Synonyms: lascivious, lecherous, lustfulderogatoryfigurativelyobsolete