natch

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /næt͡ʃ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ætʃ

Etymology 1

Clipping of naturally, originally US.

Adverb

natch (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) Naturally; of course.

   The Queen was seen wearing a hat when she visited Ascot, natch.

   • 1960 May 16, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 146:

     [Bug:] You can parry and thrust wittily at a press conference?
     [Dog:] Natch.

   • 2025 August 4, Mike Isaac, “A.I. Has Ushered in Silicon Valley’s ‘Hard Tech’ Era”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 August 2025:

     Engineers held morning meetings sitting in rainbow-colored beanbags, took lunch gratis at the corporate sushi bar and unwound in the afternoon with craft brews from the office keg (nitrogen chilled, natch).

   • 2025 October 16, Zach Vasquez, “‘Explicit and outrageous’: South Park is back with its most gratuitous episode since naked Trump”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     The size of Trump’s penis? Somewhere between 6-7cm. All of this is foretold in Revelation 6:7, natch.

Translations

naturally

• Bulgarian: разбира се (razbira se)
• Czech: samo sebou, jasně (cs), jasan (cs), sámo
• French: ben ouais (fr)
• Galician: naturalmente, loxicamente, por suposto
• German: na klar
• Russian: есте́ственно (ru) (jestéstvenno), (informal) само́ собо́й (ru) (samó sobój), (colloquial, slang) я́сен пень (ru) (jásen penʹ)
• Spanish: naturalmente (es), por supuesto (es)

Etymology 2

From Old French nache, Late Latin natica, from Latin natis (“the rump, buttocks”). Compare aitchbone.

Noun

natch (plural natches)

1. The rump of beef, especially the lower and back part of the rump.

Derived terms

• natch-bone

Etymology 3

Noun

natch (plural natches)

1. (dialect) A notch.

Further reading

• “natch adv.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present.

Anagrams

• Chant, chant