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Gotch vs Hotch - What's the difference?

gotch | hotch |

As a noun gotch

is men's underwear.

As a verb hotch is

to move irregularly up and down.

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.

    hotch

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To move irregularly up and down.
  • To swarm ((with)).
  • * 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 314:
    • What if I went up? Imagine nobody had done it before. It would be hoaching with balls and stuff, hundreds of things.