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Gotch vs Fotch - What's the difference?

gotch | fotch |

As a noun gotch

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

As a verb fotch is

fetch.

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.

    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. }}