Meanings
- attributiveAttributive form of britches.
I got up and jammed my hands to the wrists in my britch pockets and stared into the crazy black branches of the winter apple tree.
1955, Davis Grubb, A Dream of Kings, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →LCCN, page 1222 more examples
“Hal, for shame! Mother, he has stuffed a whole tea-cake in his britch pockets,” was poor Bridget’s aside, spoken in a voice of distress, for the tea-cakes were plentifully buttered in honour of the guest.
[1884], Esmè Stuart [pseudonym; Amélie Claire Leroy], “The Tailor’s Tea-Party”, in The Prisoner’s Daughter. A Story of 1758., London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, […]. Brighton: […]. New York: E. & J. B. Young and Co., →OCLC, page 65I never will forgit that ol’ feller a-standin’ thar, cussin’ loud as he could, an’ feelin’ round in his britch-pockets atter more cattridges!
1932, Vance Randolph, Ozark Mountain Folks, New York, N.Y.: The Vanguard Press, →OCLC, page 59
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