different between hotcha vs hotch

English

Etymology

Fanciful extension of hot.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?t??/

Adjective

hotcha (comparative more hotcha, superlative most hotcha)

1. (US, slang) Flashy, vivacious; attractive, desirable. [from 20th c.]
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 53:

     ‘It seems he run Sternwood's hotcha daughter, the young one, off to Yuma.’

Related terms

• hot

Hadza

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ot??a/

Verb

hotcha

1. to swell

Noun

hotcha m (fem. hotchako) (Note: the form after a determiner is hotcha)

1. (masc.) pregnancy
2. (fem.) abdomen, belly

Alternative forms

• otcha

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman hocher, Middle French hocher, from a Germanic source (compare Dutch hutsen, German hotzen).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h?t?/

Verb

hotch (third-person singular simple present hotches, present participle hotching, simple past and past participle hotched)

1. (now chiefly Scotland) To move irregularly up and down.
2. (now chiefly Scotland) To swarm (with).
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy (Penguin 2009), page 314:

     What if I went up? Imagine nobody had done it before. It would be hoaching with balls and stuff, hundreds of things.

Derived terms

• hotchpot