gotch

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English

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Etymology

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From Ukrainian га́чі (háči), ґа́чі pl (gáči, underwear). Possibly back-formed from diminutive gotchies.

Noun

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gotch (plural gotches)

  1. (Saskatchewan, Manitoba, slang) Men's underwear.
    • 1998, Steven Erikson, This River Awakens[1], Tor, published 2013, →ISBN:
      I stopped beside Carl. 'Go ahead,' I told him. 'Pull his gotch right up over his fucking head.'
    • 2009, Milton Ramsden, Northward to Love, Trafford Publishing, published 2009, →ISBN, page 56:
      Hilly howled as he lit the lamp and dove toward us clad in only his gotch.
    • 2013, D. W. Wilson, Ballistics[2], Hamish Hamilton, published 2013, →ISBN:
      So I was off atop a mountain, a day out of town and soaked through the gotch, when Jack spotted the American car.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:gotch.

Derived terms

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References

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  • “gaunch", "gonch", "gotch", "gotchies", "ginch", "gitch” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • Barber, Katherine. "11 Favourite Regionalisms Within Canada", in David Vallechinsky and Amy Wallace (2005). The Book of Lists, Canadian Edition. Knopf. →ISBN.

Cebuano

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Etymology

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Reverse spelling of tulog + ch.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: gotch

Verb

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gotch

  1. to sleep