gotch

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ukrainian ґа́тки pl (gátky, “underwear”). Possibly back-formed from diminutive gotchies, after Ukrainian diminutive ґа́ці pl (gáci).

Noun

gotch (plural gotches)

1. (Saskatchewan and Manitoba, slang) Men's underwear.
   • 1998, Steven Erikson, This River Awakens, Tor (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     I stopped beside Carl. 'Go ahead,' I told him. 'Pull his gotch right up over his fucking head.'

   • 2009, Milton Ramsden, Northward to Love, Trafford Publishing (2009), →ISBN, page 56:

     Hilly howled as he lit the lamp and dove toward us clad in only his gotch.

   • 2013, D. W. Wilson, Ballistics, Hamish Hamilton (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     So I was off atop a mountain, a day out of town and soaked through the gotch, when Jack spotted the American car.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:gotch.

Derived terms

• gitch
• gaunch, gonch, ginch (Alberta, British Columbia)
• gotchies, gitchies, gonchies (diminutive)

References

• “gaunch", "gonch", "gotch", "gotchies", "ginch", "gitch” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Barber, Katherine. "11 Favourite Regionalisms Within Canada", in David Vallechinsky and Amy Wallace (2005). The Book of Lists, Canadian Edition. Knopf. →ISBN.

---

Cebuano

Etymology

Reverse spelling of tulog + ch.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: gotch

Verb

gotch

1. to sleep