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zatch

zatch noun: the stomach.

Noun

zatch (plural zatches)

  1. The stomach.
    • I wonder if he would order me to cause a fall of purple snow . . .or make a table out of sawdust . . . or merely slit me from my guggle to my zatch and say to Saralinda "There he lies, your latest fool, a nameless minstrel. […]"1950, James Thurber, The 13 Clocks
    • Worse. I shall have to rip him from his guggle to his zatch.1993, Bevan Amberhill, The Bloody Man, page 18

Forms of zatch

pluralzatches

Origin of zatch

Coined by James Thurber in the 13 Clocks (1950)

Questions about zatch

What does zatch mean?
Zatch means the stomach.
What part of speech is zatch?
Zatch is a noun.
What is the plural of zatch?
The plural of zatch is zatches.

Words near zatch in the dictionary

  1. zat
  2. zatar
  3. Zatarain
  4. Zatarains
  5. Zatarian
  6. zatch
  7. zatches
  8. zate
  9. zatebradine
  10. zatherian
  11. zatherians

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