gotch

/ɡˈɑtʃ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.16 in modern English

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noun

Slang

name

"I stopped beside Carl. 'Go ahead,' I told him. 'Pull his gotch right up over his fucking head.'"
"Hilly howled as he lit the lamp and dove toward us clad in only his gotch."
"So I was off atop a mountain, a day out of town and soaked through the gotch, when Jack spotted the American car."

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

gotches (plural)

gitch gaunch gonch ginch gotchies gitchies gonchies

watch notch scotch crotch swatch botch boche poche kotch troche knoche racz

Questions

How do you pronounce gotch?

The recorded pronunciation is /ɡˈɑtʃ/.

What does gotch mean?

Men's underwear.

Where does gotch come from?

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

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