The story
- Old French · derived fromocher
- Middle French · derived fromoche“notch”
- English todayoche
Possibly from Middle French oche (“notch”), from Old French ocher, ochier (“to make a notch in; to notch”), which, according to Partridge, could be related to French hocher and English nick (“small cut, notch”).
Words from the same roots
Middle Frenchoche all →
notch
First known use, by meaning
- from 1930s A line behind which a player's front foot must be placed when throwing a dart.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.