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Fotch vs Notch - What's the difference?

fotch | notch |

As verbs the difference between fotch and notch

is that fotch is fetch while notch is to cut a notch in (something).

As a noun notch is

a V-shaped cut.

fotch

English

Verb

(head)
  • fetch
  • * {{quote-book, year=1871, author=John William De Forest, title=Overland, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="I'll fotch her up," volunteered Texas, who had a hyena's hankering after dead bodies. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1901, author=Winston Churchill, title=The Crisis, Complete, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I'll fotch him, Miss Jinny. }}
  • fetched
  • * {{quote-book, year=1936-1938, author=Work Projects Administration, title=Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=My granmammy done hear me bawlin an go fotch me to my mammy's house. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1900, author=Louise Manly, title=Southern Literature From 1579-1895, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Brer Rabbit come prancin' 'long twel he spy de Tar-Baby, en den he fotch up on his behine legs like he wuz 'stonished. }}

    notch

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • A V-shaped cut.
  • Such a cut, used for keeping a record
    • ''The notches in that tribe's warrior axe handles stand for killed enemies.
  • An indentation.
  • A mountain pass; a defile
  • (informal) A level or degree.
    • ''This car is a notch better than the other.
  • * 2014 , Daniel Taylor, " World Cup 2014: Uruguay sink England as Suárez makes his mark," guardian.co.uk , 20 June:
    • A better team might also have done more to expose Uruguay’s occasionally brittle defence, but England’s speed of thought and movement in their attacking positions was a good notch or two down from the Italy game.

    Derived terms

    * notch on one's bedpost, notch on the bedpost * notchback * notchboard * top notch

    Verb

    (es)
  • To cut a notch in (something).
  • To record (a score or similar) by making notches on something.
    • The tribe's hunters notch their kills by notches on each's axe's handle.
  • To join by means of notches.
  • To achieve (something).
    • The team notched a pair of shutout wins on Sunday.
  • *

    • Derived terms

    * notcher * notchy