Meanings
- ScotlandusuallyInfested; swarming; teeming.
Everybody knows that Glasgow is hoatching with film companies shooting movies on its mean streets.
2013, Michael Munro, “See Glasgow? See Culture?”, in The Crack: The Best of Glasgow Humour, →ISBN2 more examples
"Isn't the haill country hoatching with disbanded sojers, men with guns and swords that haven't been paid for months, that'll cut a throat for a couple of maiks?"
2003, Robin Jenkins, Lady Magdalen, →ISBN, page 317So in 1651, at the age of 16, his adventure began when he took ship from Aberdeen to Danzig, and even on the first leg of his journey to Königsberg, he quickly realised that the country was hoatching with his fellow countrymen.
2011, Billy Kay, The Scottish World: A Journey Into the Scottish Diaspora, →ISBNSynonyms: overrun
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveInfested; swarming; teeming.
Cite this entry
hoatching. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hoatching
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