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zitch

zitch is the alternative form of such.

Meaning of such

Determiner

such

  1. (demonstrative) Like this, that, these, those; used to make a comparison with something implied by context.
    • I’ve never seen such clouds in the sky before.
  2. (particularly used in formal documents) Any.
    • the above address or at such other address as may be provided
  3. (degree) Used as an intensifier roughly equivalent to very much (of), quite or rather.
    • Unfortunately, it wasn't such a good holiday as we thought it would be.
    1. (degree) Used with gradable noun phrases to form exclamations.
      • Such hypocrisy!
  4. (dialectal, obsolete) A certain; representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned.
    • In rushed one and tells him such a knight / Is new arrived.1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson...

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Origin of zitch

From Middle English swich, from Old English swilċ.

Questions about zitch

What is zitch the alternative form of?
Zitch is the alternative form of such.

Words near zitch in the dictionary

  1. Zisis
  2. Ziskind
  3. Zissis
  4. zit
  5. zitan
  6. zitch
  7. zitcom
  8. zitcoms
  9. zite
  10. zitface
  11. zitfaced

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zitch (page history and authors); such (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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