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hotching

hotching is the present participle and gerund of hotch.

Meaning of hotch

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

Questions about hotching

What is hotching the present participle and gerund of?
Hotching is the present participle and gerund of hotch.

Words near hotching in the dictionary

  1. hotchas
  2. hotched
  3. hotches
  4. hotchiku
  5. Hotchin
  6. hotching
  7. Hotchkin
  8. Hotchkiss
  9. Hotchkiss gun
  10. Hotchkiss guns
  11. Hotchley Hill

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