different between gotch vs grotch

English

Etymology

From Ukrainian ?????? pl (gátky, “underwear”). Possibly back-formed from diminutive gotchies, after Ukrainian diminutive ????? pl (gáci).

Noun

gotch (plural gotches)

1. (Saskatchewan and Manitoba, slang) Men's underwear.
   • 1998, Steven Erikson, This River Awakens, Tor (2013), ?ISBN, 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, 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, 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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:gotch.

Derived terms

• gitch
• gaunch, gonch, ginch (Alberta, British Columbia)
• gotchies, gitchies, gonchies (diminutive)

References

• “gaunch", "gonch", "gotch", "gotchies", "ginch", "gitch” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Barber, Katherine. "11 Favourite Regionalisms Within Canada", in David Vallechinsky and Amy Wallace (2005). The Book of Lists, Canadian Edition. Knopf. ?ISBN.

Cebuano

Etymology

Reverse spelling of tulog + ch.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: gotch

Verb

gotch

1. to sleep

English

Etymology

Coined by Dean A. Grennell.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????t?/
• enPR: gräch
• Rhymes: -?t?

Verb

grotch (third-person singular simple present grotches, present participle grotching, simple past and past participle grotched)

1. (dated, fandom slang) To annoy; to irritate.
2. (dated, fandom slang) To complain.
   • The Seagates are,despite my constant grotching about commodity drives, not bad.

   • 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 Thesaurus:annoy
• (complain): see Thesaurus:complain

Derived terms

• grotchy

References