Hotch vs Fotch - What's the difference?
hotch | fotch |
To move irregularly up and down.
To swarm ((with)).
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 314:
fetch
* {{quote-book, year=1871, author=John William De Forest, title=Overland, chapter=, edition=
, 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=
, 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=
, 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=
, 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. }}
As verbs the difference between hotch and fotch
is that hotch is to move irregularly up and down while fotch is fetch.hotch
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(es)- What if I went up? Imagine nobody had done it before. It would be hoaching with balls and stuff, hundreds of things.
fotch
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