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gotch | grotch |

As a noun gotch

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

As a verb grotch is

(dated|fandom slang) to annoy; to irritate.

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.

    grotch

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • (dated, fandom slang) To annoy; to irritate.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1959 , first = Richard "Dick" Harris , last = Eney , title = Fancyclopedia II , section = Grotch , url = http://www.fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Fancyclopedia/Fancyclopedia_II/golf.html , passage = GROTCH (Grennell) Acutely irritate. Usually passive. Speer suggests that this useful word is a transitive form of grouch. }}
  • (dated, fandom slang) To complain.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1959 , first = Richard "Dick" Harris , last = Eney , title = Fancyclopedia II , section = RICHARD S(harpe) SHAVER , url = http://www.fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Fancyclopedia/Fancyclopedia_II/sierra.html , passage = This might have been an amusing and ingenious piece of fantasy, but Palmer published it, and demanded that it be accepted, as fact. Fans, as might be expected, grotched most acutely at such a claim, seeing in it the revolting nadir of Palmerism; the completion of his shift from fictionalized science to profitable superstition in the name of commercial appeal to the boob element. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1962 , date = June , first = Edmund R. , last = Meskys , authorlink = , magazine = Cry of the Nameless , title = Cry of the Readers , url = http://fanac.org/fanzines/Cry_of_the_Nameless/Cry161-19.html , issue = 161 , page = (19–36) , passage = Oh yeah, Buz, so you were just a wee bit off on your Hugo nomination predictions last time around. I see where SFTimes did not make it and Cry did. Well, sorry to disappoint you, but if anyone gets my vote at all, it will be Warhoon. (I'm a bit grotched about their policy of your having to use the official ballot. I'm a completist fanatic second only to Walter A. Coslet, and I haven't decided yet whether or not I'll part with my copy of the ballot in order to vote.) }}
  • * {{quote-usenet
    • , year = 1989 , monthday = October 06 , author = Alex Pournelle , email = , title = Re^2: Is an(y) Apple Hard Disk better than any others? , id = 1989Oct6.080327.16026@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us , group = comp.sys.mac , url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.sys.mac/NcQqbex42_E/1kVsXygpVuMJ }}
    The Seagates are,despite my constant grotching about commodity drives, not bad.
  • * {{quote-usenet
    • , year = 2000 , monthday = August 08 , author = Mike Weber , email = , title = Re: Being nice to outsiders , id = 398fcef2.6598134@news.mindspring.com , group = rec.arts.sf.fandom , url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.sf.fandom/N3smE5h98ZU/7mFH4vlaQzEJ }}
    The problem is that, much as we may sympathise with those coming in and expecting different rules of discourse than obtain here, we are not obligated to change *our* ways to suit *them*, and people who don't perceive that fact fairly quickly (or fail to "get" it after the first time it's pointed out) and continue to grotch about how "You kids are playing wrong -- play right!" are Fair Game for sardonic replies.

    Synonyms

    * (annoy) see * (complain) see

    References