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Cotch vs Gotch - What's the difference?

cotch | gotch |

As a verb cotch

is .

As a noun gotch is

(saskatchewan|and|manitoba|slang) men's underwear.

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." }}

    gotch

    English

    (Undergarment)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (Saskatchewan, and, Manitoba, slang) Men's underwear.
  • * 1998 , Steven Erikson, This River Awakens , Tor (2013), ISBN 9780765334992, 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 9781425190262, 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 9780670065752, 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.
  • *

    • Derived terms

    * gitch * gaunch, gonch, ginch (qualifier) * gotchies, gitchies, gonchies (diminutive)

    References

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