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cotching

cotching is the present participle and gerund of cotch.

Meaning of cotch

Verb

cotch (third-person singular simple present cotches, present participle cotching, simple past and past participle cotched)

  1. (Jamaica, Multicultural-London-English, intransitive) To hang out or chill out; to relax.
    • I’m sitting here cotching by the side of the road / Watching the world go by through the eyes of a rogue2003 September 15, “Gimme Dat” (track 8), in Asylum Speakers, performed by Foreign Beggars, Dented Records
  2. (Jamaica, intransitive) To prop, lean, rest.
    • She gestures toward the crème with her chin, an action that she has seen the women in the shop do when they place their orders, their confidence evident in the way they stand, leaning with all their weight on the counter, one leg cotched on the back of the other.2016, Nicole Dennis-Benn, chapter 1, in Here Comes the Sun

Questions about cotching

What is cotching the present participle and gerund of?
Cotching is the present participle and gerund of cotch.

Words near cotching in the dictionary

  1. cotch
  2. cotched
  3. cotchel
  4. cotchels
  5. cotches
  6. cotching
  7. cote
  8. Cote d'Azur
  9. Cote d'Ivoiran
  10. Cote d'Ivoire
  11. coteach

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