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Tetch vs Vetch - What's the difference?

tetch | vetch |

As nouns the difference between tetch and vetch

is that tetch is while vetch is any of several leguminous plants, of the genus vicia , often grown as green manure and for their edible seeds.

As a verb tetch

is (regional).

tetch

English

Verb

(es)
  • (regional)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1877, author=Samuel Woodworth Cozzens, title=The Young Trail Hunters, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Wal, I sot there, eatin' away, and, the fust thing I knowed, I kind 'er felt suthin' tetch my shoulder. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1880, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=Roughing It, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The minute we'd tetch off a blast 'n' the fuse'd begin to sizzle, he'd give a look as much as to say: 'Well, I'll have to git you to excuse me,' an' it was surpris'n' the way he'd shin out of that hole 'n' go f'r a tree. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1919, author=O. Henry, title=Roads of Destiny, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Miss Lucy tetch you on de shoulder," continued the old man, never heeding, "wid a s'ord, and say: 'I mek you a knight, Suh Robert--rise up, pure and fearless and widout reproach.' }}

    Noun

    (es)
  • * {{quote-news, year=2001, date=November 2, author=Monica Kendrick, title=Spot Check, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=The three songs I've heard so far are low-key and restrained, with a tetch of honky-tonk tension--the sound of a heart being bounced up and down like a squishy yo-yo. }}

    vetch

    English

    (wikipedia vetch) (Vicia)

    Noun

    (vetches)
  • Any of several leguminous plants, of the genus Vicia , often grown as green manure and for their edible seeds.
  • Any of several similar plants within the subfamily Faboideae.

    • Hyponyms

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    Derived terms

    * ) * kidney vetch () * milk-vetch (Astragalus ) * vetchling (''Lathyrus) * vetchy

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