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(Alberta, and, British Columbia, slang) Men's brief-style underwear.
* 1996 , Richard Van Camp, The Lesser Blessed , Douglas & McIntyre (1996), ISBN 1550545256,
* 2005 , Robert Arthur Strandquist, A Small Dog Barking: Stories , Anvil Press (2005), ISBN 9781895636697,
* 2012 , Savanna Fox, The Dirty Girls Book Club , Berkley (2012), ISBN 9781101611364,
gonch
English
(Undergarment)Alternative forms
* gotch, ginch, gitch, gonchies, gotchies, ginchies, gitchiesNoun
(gonch)- Make sure you do laundry tonight, I'm going to need some clean gonch in the morning
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- He was standing in his gonch with his big belly hanging over.
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- He rented a room in his old neighbourhood and relaxed in his gonch .
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- “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.