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hotch

/hɒtʃ/

hotch verb: to move irregularly up and down.

Verb

hotch (third-person singular simple present hotches, present participle hotching, simple past and past participle hotched)

  1. (Scotland) To move irregularly up and down.
  2. (Scotland) To swarm (with).
    • What if I went up? Imagine nobody had done it before. It would be hotching with balls and stuff, hundreds of things.2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 314

hotch meaning in Bengali

hotch in Bengali

গিজগিজ করা

Forms of hotch

third-person singular presenthotches
present participlehotching
past participlehotched
pasthotched

Origin of hotch

From Anglo-Norman hocher, Middle French hocher, from a Germanic source (compare Dutch hutsen, hossen, German hotzen).

Words formed from hotch

Words that rhyme with hotch

Questions about hotch

What does hotch mean?
Hotch means to move irregularly up and down.
What is hotch in Bengali?
Hotch in Bengali is গিজগিজ করা. See Hotch meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is hotch?
Hotch is a verb.
How do you pronounce hotch?
Hotch is pronounced /hɒtʃ/ (UK).
What is the past tense of hotch?
The past tense of hotch is hotched.

Words near hotch in the dictionary

  1. hotbunks
  2. hotbutton
  3. hotbuttons
  4. hotcake
  5. hotcakes
  6. hotch
  7. hotch-potch
  8. hotcha
  9. hotchas
  10. hotched
  11. hotches

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hotch (page history and authors); hotch (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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