Yuckle

Part of speech: verb, noun

Definitions

1. To feel an itch or to scratch oneself, used in some regional dialects of English
2. An old dialect word meaning to itch or to have a tingling, irritating sensation on the skin
3. In certain regional speech, to be itchy or to scratch at the skin to relieve an irritation

Etymology: Yuckle is an English dialect name for the green woodpecker, a bird whose loud, ringing call sounds like mocking laughter. The name very likely imitates that cry, much as the better-known "yaffle" does. Dialect speakers gave the bird many such sound-based names, including "yaffle," "eickle," and "hickwall," and the variants in "-kle" and "-ckle" seem to be local reshapings of the same echoic idea.