🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

picazón

Pronunciation / Transliteration: pee-kah-zohn

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Itch/ɪtʃ/
nounverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"La alergia le causó una picazón intensa en los brazos."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An uncomfortable sensation on the skin that causes a desire to scratch.

    "He felt a sudden itch on his arm after walking through the tall grass."
As verb
  1. 1

    To feel or cause an uncomfortable sensation on the skin requiring scratching.

    "Woolen sweaters always make my skin itch."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English 'giccan', meaning to itch, which traces back to Proto-Germanic '*jukjaną' (reflected by regional variants like 'yuke'). Over centuries, the phonetic evolution shifted the initial consonant sound while retaining its core sensory meaning.

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