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Hootch vs Hotch - What's the difference?

hootch | hotch |

As a noun hootch

is (archaic).

As a verb hotch is

to move irregularly up and down.

hootch

English

Noun

(es)
  • (archaic)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=Robert C. Benchley, title=Love Conquers All, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The basic idea of "Rip Van Winkle" would lend itself admirably to Broadway treatment, for Mr. MacKaye has taken liberties, with the legend and introduced the topical idea of a Magic Flask, containing home-made hootch . }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1920, author=Ralph S. Kendall, title=The Luck of the Mounted, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Th' few shots av hootch ye had tu throw inta yu' last night tu get ye're Dutch up must be makin' ye see double, me man. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1911, author=Robert W. Service, title=The Trail of '98, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="I can't hold my hootch so well as I could a few summers ago--and many hard Falls. }}

    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.