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sitch

sitch noun: a brook; an occasional small waterway: a ditch, a gutter or drain; a ravine. Also the pronunciation spelling of such.

Noun (1)

sitch (plural sitches)

  1. (dialectal) A brook; an occasional small waterway: a ditch, a gutter or drain; a ravine.
    • This is the boundary at Earnleie: First from Earesbrook and [qu. to] the short thorns, […] from the pit to Heortseges brook, along the brook to the mouth, and from the mouth to Byinnig-brook, and thence up along the brook to the sitch (i.e. runnel), and from the sitch to Sciteresford, and from the...1908, Collections for a History of Staffordshire, page 107

Noun (2)

sitch (plural sitches)

  1. (slang) A situation.
    • So here's the sitch: Bruce Banner and Betty Ross Talbot are falling from roughly eight miles high.2005, Lois H. Gresh, Robert E. Weinberg, The science of supervillains, John Wiley and Sons, page 1
    • Valeska had insisted 'she' stay, sleep where it was definitely safe. Just 'til the sitch could be settled.2007, George Bennett Fain, Pandora's Box, Lulu.com, page 159

Also used as

sitch is also the pronunciation spelling of such.

Examples of sitch in a sentence

  • Whatever the sitch, you two balance each other out.2008, Editors of TEEN magazine, Teen Uncover the Real You: A Quiz Book, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., page 2:
  • Thanks for understanding the sitch, Gina, you're a china doll.2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)
  • Especially when you're in a bad sitch. / MICHAELA: Well, I was in a bad "sitch," Ethan, but I was fine because I had Simone.2014, Molly Smith Metzler, Elemeno Pea, →ISBN, page 49:
  • I'm just going to beam myself out of this whole sitch.2020 October 8, Mike McMahan, “No Small Parts” (17:52 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 1, episode 10, spoken by Peanut...

Forms of sitch

pluralsitches
alternative formsytch
alternative formsitche
alternative formsich
alternative formsiche

Origin of sitch

From Middle English sich, siche, from Old English sīċ (“a watercourse; sike”), from Proto-West Germanic *sīk, from Proto-Germanic *sīką (“slow flowing water; a trickle”).

Clipping of situation, with phonetic respelling.

Questions about sitch

What does sitch mean?
Sitch means a brook; an occasional small waterway: a ditch, a gutter or drain; a ravine.
How do you use sitch in a sentence?
Whatever the sitch, you two balance each other out.
What part of speech is sitch?
Sitch is a noun.
What is the plural of sitch?
The plural of sitch is sitches.

Words near sitch in the dictionary

  1. Sitarmakers
  2. sitars
  3. sitatunga
  4. sitatungas
  5. sitaxentan
  6. sitch
  7. sitches
  8. Sitchin
  9. Sitchinesque
  10. Sitchins
  11. sitcho

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