toches

English

Alternative forms

tuches tokhes tuchus tuchis

tochis tuchas tuckus tochus

Etymology

From Yiddish תּחת (tokhes, “buttocks”), in turn from Hebrew תחת (tákat, “buttocks”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtɒxəs/ (influenced by Litvish), IPA: /ˈtʊx‌əs/ (influenced by Poylish)

Note: In most dialects of English, speakers are uncomfortable with the phoneme /x/ and it is commonly substituted here with /k/ or the more etymologically conservative /χ/.

Noun

toches (plural tocheses)

1. (slang, chiefly US) The buttocks, rear end, butt.
   • 2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage 2007, p. 66:

     he sat on the top of mountains and read Wordsworth and Lenin aloud to extravagantly beautiful shikseh waitresses with golden pigtails down to their tocheses (no one ever said arse in this gathering, it was always toches) who repaid him with free Glühwein and he wasn't prepared to tell me what else.