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gouch

/ɡaʊt͡ʃ/

gouch is the alternative form of gooch.

Meaning of gooch

Noun

gooch (plural gooches)

  1. (slang) The perineum.
    • For those unfamiliar, Johnson helpfully informs us that 'it's for your gooch, your Biffin's bridge, your perineum (the bit on your bum that after days in the saddle starts to chaffe).'2008, Blueprint, Issues 266-269, page 46

See all 3 meanings of gooch

Verb

gouch (third-person singular simple present gouches, present participle gouching, simple past and past participle gouched)

  1. (UK, slang) to feel drowsy due to the effects of heroin or other recreational drugs
    • Lethargy was hitting me in spades. I felt so weak I had to hold onto a pillar to stop from falling on the grimy floor. This wasn't gouching. Everything felt in slow motion. Like I was about to die.September 2020, Aidan Martin, Euphoric Recall, page 57
    • The TV is everyone's go-to when they're off and gouching in the house.2020 November 21, Christina O'Neill, “40 things to do while staying at home during Tier 4 lockdown”, in Glasgow Live

Forms of gouch

Noun
pluralgouches
Verb
third-person singular presentgouches
present participlegouching
past participlegouched
pastgouched
alternative formgauch

Questions about gouch

What does gouch mean?
Gouch means to feel drowsy due to the effects of heroin or other recreational drugs.
What is gouch the alternative form of?
Gouch is the alternative form of gooch.
What part of speech is gouch?
Gouch is a verb.
How do you pronounce gouch?
Gouch is pronounced /ɡaʊt͡ʃ/.
What is the past tense of gouch?
The past tense of gouch is gouched.

Words near gouch in the dictionary

  1. gouaching
  2. Goualougo
  3. Goualougo Triangle
  4. gouber
  5. goubers
  6. gouch
  7. gouched
  8. Goucher
  9. Gouchers
  10. gouches
  11. gouching

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gouch (page history and authors); gooch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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