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tetch
English
Verb
tetch (third-person singular simple present tetches, present participle tetching, simple past and past participle tetched)
- (regional) Pronunciation spelling of touch.
Noun
tetch (plural tetches)
- Pronunciation spelling of touch.
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ketch
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?t?/
- Rhymes: -?t?
Etymology 1
From Middle English catche, from cacchen (“to catch”). For the modern form with /?/, compare the pronunciation /k?t?/ of catch.
Noun
ketch (plural ketches)
- A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post.
- 1720, Daniel Defoe, Captain Singleton, London: J. Brotherton et al., p. 313,[1]
- […] to finish her new Habit or Appearance, and make her Change compleat, he ordered her Sails to be alter’d; and as she sailed before with a Half-Sprit, like a Yacht, she sailed now with square Sail and Mizen Mast, like a Ketch; so that, in a Word, she was a perfect Cheat […]
- 1720, Daniel Defoe, Captain Singleton, London: J. Brotherton et al., p. 313,[1]
Translations
Descendants
- ? Dutch: kits
See also
- yawl.
Further reading
- ketch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
See catch.
Verb
ketch (third-person singular simple present ketches, present participle ketching, simple past and past participle ketched)
- Pronunciation spelling of catch.
- 1815, D. HUMPHREYS, Yankey in England, I. 21,
- I guess, he is trying to ketch mebut it won't du. I'm tu old a bird to be ketch'd with chaff.
- 1865, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, II. IV. xv., page 287
- Wot is it, lambs, as they ketches in seas, rivers, lakes, and ponds?
- 1883 [see KNUCK 2].
- 1916, W. O. BRADLEY, Stories & Speeches 18
- You'll never ketch me hollerin' at no Republican gatherin'.
- 1929, H. W. ODUM, in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973), page 184
- If so you gonna ketch hell.
- 1967, Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 103/1
- You heard about that joke a dollar down and a dollar when you ketch me?
- 1968 S. STUCKEY, in A. Chapman, New Black Voices (1972), page 445
- Run, nigger, run, de patrollers will ketch you.
- 1815, D. HUMPHREYS, Yankey in England, I. 21,
Etymology 3
From Jack Ketch, a hangman of the 17th century.
Verb
ketch (third-person singular simple present ketches, present participle ketching, simple past and past participle ketched)
- (rare) To hang.
- 1681, T. FLATMAN Heraclitus Ridens No. 14
- 'Squire Ketch rejoices as much to hear of a new Vox, as an old Sexton does to hear of a new Delight.
- n.d., Ibid;;. No. 18
- Well! If he has a mind to be Ketch'd, speed him say I.
- 1840, Fraser's Mag., XXI. 210
- Ignorant of many of the secrets of ketchcraft.
- 1859, MATSELL Vocab. s.v. (Farmer),
- I'll ketch you; I'll hang you.
- 1681, T. FLATMAN Heraclitus Ridens No. 14
Noun
ketch (plural ketches)
- A hangman.
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