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gotch

gotch noun: men's underwear.

Noun

gotch (plural gotches)

  1. (slang, Saskatchewan, Manitoba) Men's underwear.
    • I stopped beside Carl. 'Go ahead,' I told him. 'Pull his gotch right up over his fucking head.'1998, Steven Erikson, This River Awakens, Tor, published 2013, →ISBN
    • Hilly howled as he lit the lamp and dove toward us clad in only his gotch.2009, Milton Ramsden, Northward to Love, Trafford Publishing, published 2009, →ISBN, page 56

Proper noun capitalized: Gotch

Gotch (plural Gotches)

  1. A surname.

Forms of gotch

Noun
pluralgotches
Proper noun
pluralGotches

Origin of gotch

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

Variant of Gooch.

Words formed from gotch

Questions about gotch

What does gotch mean?
Gotch means men's underwear.
What part of speech is gotch?
Gotch can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of gotch?
The plural of gotch is gotches.

Words near gotch in the dictionary

  1. Gotarzes
  2. gotaway
  3. gotaways
  4. Gotay
  5. Gotays
  6. gotch
  7. gotch-gutted
  8. gotcha
  9. Gotcha Day
  10. Gotcha Days
  11. gotcha journalism

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