Itchland, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Itchland n.

[derog. stereotyping of Wales and Scotland as lands of overt sexuality or of infestations of body-lice; thus early 18C ballad ‘The Curse of Scotland’: ‘So God keep me from Scotland, and all that mangy race / For it is a nasty, mangy, lousy, itchy, dirty place’]

1. Wales.

c.1698

B.E. Dict. Canting Crew.

2. Scotland.

1725		New Canting Dict. n.p.: itch-Land Scotland.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. 1725].
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1809		G. Andrewes Dict. Sl. and Cant.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
[1833		Satirist (London) 3 Mar. 493/3: Holmes, on hearing of his alliance with the Scotch widow, observed, his Lordship must have an itch for matrimony].
1835		G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.
c.1850		Duncombe New and Improved Flash Dict.
1890		York Herald 12 Apr. 12/5: The numerous titles of Scotland — Scratchland, Itchland, Whigland.

3. (UK Und.) Ireland.

1845–55

B.M. Carew Life and Adventures.

In derivatives

Itchlander (n.)

a Scot.

1823

‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. 106: Itchlander — a Scotchman.