crotch

English

A coati sitting in a crotch of a tree

Etymology

From Old French croche (“shepherd's crook”)

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɒtʃ

Noun

crotch (plural crotches)

1. The area where something forks or branches, a ramification takes place.

   There is a child sitting in a crotch of that tree.

2. The (ventral) area of a person’s body where the legs fork from the trunk

   Every mile they rode their crotches felt worse saddlepain.

3. (slang, euphemistic) Either the male or female genitalia.

   He cringed at being kicked in the crotch.

Translations

area where something forks

• Bulgarian: разклон (bg) (razklon) m 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 岔 (cmn) (chà), 丫叉 (cmn) (yāchà), 分叉 (cmn) (fēnchā)

• Dutch: aftakking (nl) f, vork (nl)
• Esperanto: akselo (eo)
• Finnish: haara (fi)
• French: fourche (fr) f
• German: Gabelung (de) f, Verzweigung (de) f

• Japanese: 叉 (ja) (また, mata)
• Norwegian: forgrening (no) m and f
• Portuguese: forquilha (pt) f, bifurcação (pt) f, ramificação (pt), Y (pt) m
• Russian: развилка (ru) (razvílka) f , разветвление (ru) (razvetvlénije) n , вилка (ru) (vílka) f , развилина (ru) (razvílina) f 
• Scottish Gaelic: gobhal (gd) m
• Spanish: horqueta (es) (tree)

area of a person’s body

• Bulgarian: чатал (bg) (čatal) m 
• Danish: skridt (da) n
• Dutch: kruis (nl) n
• Finnish: haaraväli (fi)
• French: entrejambe (fr) m
• German: Schritt (de) m
• Hebrew: מפשעה (he) (mifsaá)
• Icelandic: klof (is) n
• Italian: cavallo (it) m

• Japanese: 股 (ja) (また, mata), 俣 (ja) (また, mata)
• Malay: kelangkang (ms)
• Norwegian: skritt (no) n, skrev (no) n
• Polish: krocze (pl) n
• Portuguese: virilha (pt) f, entreperna (pt) f
• Russian: промежность (ru) (proméžnostʹ) f , пах (ru) (pax) m 
• Scottish Gaelic: gobhal (gd) m
• Spanish: entrepierna (es) f
• Swedish: skrev (sv) c

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• Swedish: (gren)klyka c (1), skrev n (2), gren c (2)