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Crotch vs Cotch - What's the difference?

crotch | cotch |

As a noun crotch

is the area where something forks or branches, a ramification takes place.

As a verb cotch is

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crotch

English

Noun

(es)
  • The area where something forks or branches, a ramification takes place.
    • ''There is a child sitting in a crotch of that tree.
  • The (ventral) area of a person’s body where the legs fork from the trunk
    • Every mile they rode their crotches felt worse saddlepain.
  • (slang, euphemistic) Either the male or female genitalia.
    • ''He cringed at being kicked in the crotch .

    Derived terms

    * crotch area * crotch seam * split crotch

    cotch

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1911, author=Edward S. Ellis, title=The Lost Trail, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Blast his sowl--that hunter I mane, an' if iver I cotch him, may I be used for a flail if I don't settle his accounts." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1892, author=Harry Castlemon, title=Frank on a Gun-Boat, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Dey come here for to cotch young massa George Le Dell, 'cause dey knowed he would be shore for to come here." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1914, author=Various, title=Dew Drops Vol. 37. No. 17, April 26, 1914, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Youse bettah look out, honey, or dey'll cotch youalls, shuah!" }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1880, author=Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell, title=The Harvest of Years, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Mas'r Sumner an' a'heap mo' on 'em would jes' like fur to kill dat Mas'r Dayton ef dey could cotch him. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1901, author=John Hay, title=The Bread-winners, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=But one ting ish goot; dey cotch de murterer." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1911, author=Charles Egbert Craddock (aka Mary Noailles Murfree), title=The Raid Of The Guerilla, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Ye mought hev cotch the smallpox. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1839, author=Charles James Lever, title=The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Vol. 2, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Well, we've cotch them any how," said the urchin, as he disengaged himself from his wet saddle, and stood upon the ground; "and it is not my fault that the coach is not before us." }}