gouch

plural gouches

1. alternativeslangAlternative form of gooch.

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   Fingal counted eleven tick bites - that he could see. A few more could be felt: one on his left arse cheek, for example, one on his scalp, and two in the perineum, or the gouch, the area of skin between a human's anus and scrotum (some Australians, he'd learned, also referred to the gouch as the as the aintcha, as in "well it aintcha balls, or your arse") Binjari ticks loved the gouch.

   2019, John McLean, The John Donne Experiment, page 293

present singular third person gouches · participle present gouching · participle past gouched · past gouched · alternative gauch

1. UKslangto feel drowsy due to the effects of heroin or other recreational drugs

   The TV is everyone's go-to when they're off and gouching in the house.

   2020 November 21, Christina O'Neill, “40 things to do while staying at home during Tier 4 lockdown”, in Glasgow Live

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   Lethargy was hitting me in spades. I felt so weak I had to hold onto a pillar to stop from falling on the grimy floor. This wasn't gouching. Everything felt in slow motion. Like I was about to die.

   September 2020, Aidan Martin, Euphoric Recall, page 57