gotch

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noun

Men's underwear.

OriginUkrainian га́чі →
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Meanings

gotch1

noungotch (plural gotches)

plural gotches

  1. slangSaskatchewan; Manitoba; Saskatchewan; ManitobaMen's underwear.

    Hilly howled as he lit the lamp and dove toward us clad in only his gotch.

    2009, Milton Ramsden, Northward to Love, Trafford Publishing, published 2009, →ISBN, page 56
    2 more examples

    I stopped beside Carl. 'Go ahead,' I told him. 'Pull his gotch right up over his fucking head.'

    1998, Steven Erikson, This River Awakens, Tor, published 2013, →ISBN

    So I was off atop a mountain, a day out of town and soaked through the gotch, when Jack spotted the American car.

    2013, D. W. Wilson, Ballistics, Hamish Hamilton, published 2013, →ISBN

Gotch2

proper nounGotch (plural Gotches)

plural Gotches

  1. A surname.

Origin

gotch · noun

  1. Ukrainianга́чі
  2. Englishgotch

From Ukrainian га́чі (háči), ґа́чі pl (gáči, “underwear”). Possibly back-formed from diminutive gotchies.

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Gotch · proper noun

Variant of Gooch.

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Cite this entry
APA

gotch. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gotch

MLA

“gotch.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gotch. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gotch,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gotch.

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