different between tocher vs toches

English

Etymology

From Scots tocher, from Middle Irish tochar.

Noun

tocher (plural tochers)

1. A dowry.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 121:

     And folk were to say […] old Guthrie had been fair spiteful to his sons, maybe Will would dispute his sister's tocher.

Verb

tocher (third-person singular simple present tochers, present participle tochering, simple past and past participle tochered)

1. (transitive) To supply with a dowry.

Anagrams

• Hector, Troche, hector, orchet, rochet, rotche, troche

Scots

Etymology

From Middle Irish tochar ( > Scottish Gaelic tochradh).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tox?r/

Noun

tocher (plural tochers)

1. dowry; trousseau
   • 1791, Robert Burns, ‘My Tocher's the Jewel’:

     Your proffer o' luve's an airle-penny, / My tocher's the bargain ye wad buy […].

English

Alternative forms

• tuches, tokhes, tuchus, tuchis, tookus, tochis, tuchas, tuckus, tochus

Etymology

From Yiddish ????? (tokhes, “buttocks”), in turn from Hebrew ??????? (tákhat, “buttocks”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (influenced by Litvish) /?t?x?s/, (influenced by Poylish) /?t?x?s/ (Many English speakers can’t pronounce the phoneme /x/ and commonly replace it here with /k/.)

Noun

toches (plural tocheses)

1. (slang, chiefly US) the buttocks, rear end, butt
   • 2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage 2007, p. 66:

     he sat on the top of mountains and read Wordsworth and Lenin aloud to extravagantly beautiful shikseh waitresses with golden pigtails down to their tocheses (no one ever said arse in this gathering, it was always toches) who repaid him with free Glühwein and he wasn't prepared to tell me what else.

Anagrams

• cothes