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Conch vs Gonch - What's the difference?

conch | gonch |

As nouns the difference between conch and gonch

is that conch is a marine gastropod of the family which lives in its own spiral shell while gonch is (alberta|and|british columbia|slang) men's brief-style underwear.

As a verb conch

is to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers.

conch

English

Alternative forms

* conk

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A marine gastropod of the family which lives in its own spiral shell.
  • The shell of this sea animal.
  • A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell.
  • A machine (rather like a rotating pestle and mortar) used to develop the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding; a concher or concher machine.

    • Verb

  • To refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers.
  • To play a conch seashell as a musical instrument, by blowing through a hole made close to the origin of the spiral.

    • gonch

    English

    (Undergarment)

    Alternative forms

    * gotch, ginch, gitch, gonchies, gotchies, ginchies, gitchies

    Noun

    (gonch)
  • (Alberta, and, British Columbia, slang) Men's brief-style underwear.
    • Make sure you do laundry tonight, I'm going to need some clean gonch in the morning
  • * 1996 , Richard Van Camp, The Lesser Blessed , Douglas & McIntyre (1996), ISBN 1550545256, unnumbered page:
    • He was standing in his gonch with his big belly hanging over.
  • * 2005 , Robert Arthur Strandquist, A Small Dog Barking: Stories , Anvil Press (2005), ISBN 9781895636697, page 29:
    • He rented a room in his old neighbourhood and relaxed in his gonch .
  • * 2012 , Savanna Fox, The Dirty Girls Book Club , Berkley (2012), ISBN 9781101611364, unnumbered page:
    • “So long as the ad's masculine and not too arty. Arty works for metrosexuals and gays, but not guys who think of themselves as 'real men.' Maybe have him in his gonch doing stuff like sharpening his skate blades.”

    Usage notes

    Used in British Columbia and Alberta. (term) and (gotch) are variants heard east of Alberta. It is also acceptable to append (-ies) to any of these variants, especially when referring to the underwear of male children. The term is becoming more widespread in use as a result of the rise in popularity of Vancouver-based undergarment company GinchGonch. A (gotch-pull) or (gonch-pull) is another name for a (wedgie).

    References

    * * Barber, Katherine. " 11 Favourite Regionalisms Within Canada", in David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace (2005). The Book of Lists , Canadian Edition. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-676-97720-2.