natch

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/næt͡ʃ/

adverb

Naturally; of course.

“The Queen was seen wearing a hat when she visited Ascot, natch.”

OriginOld French nache ← Late Latin natica ← Latin natis →
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Meanings

natch1

adverbnatch (not comparable)
  1. colloquialnot comparableNaturally; of course.

    The Queen was seen wearing a hat when she visited Ascot, natch.

    3 more examples

    [Bug:] You can parry and thrust wittily at a press conference? [Dog:] Natch.

    1960 May 16, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 146

    Engineers held morning meetings sitting in rainbow-colored beanbags, took lunch gratis at the corporate sushi bar and unwound in the afternoon with craft brews from the office keg (nitrogen chilled, natch).

    2025 August 4, Mike Isaac, “A.I. Has Ushered in Silicon Valley’s ‘Hard Tech’ Era”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2025

    The size of Trump’s penis? Somewhere between 6-7cm. All of this is foretold in Revelation 6:7, natch.

    2025 October 16, Zach Vasquez, “‘Explicit and outrageous’: South Park is back with its most gratuitous episode since naked Trump”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

natch2

nounnatch (plural natches)

plural natches

  1. The rump of beef, especially the lower and back part of the rump.

natch3

nounnatch (plural natches)

plural natches

  1. dialectalA notch.

Origin

natch · adverb

Clipping of naturally, originally US.

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natch · noun

  1. Latinnatis“the rump, buttocks”
  2. Late Latinnatica
  3. Old Frenchnache
  4. Englishnatch

From Old French nache, Late Latin natica, from Latin natis (“the rump, buttocks”). Compare aitchbone.

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Translations

Bulgarian разбира се
  • разбира се (razbira se)naturally
Czech samo sebou, jasně
  • samo sebounaturally
  • jasněnaturally
  • jasannaturally
  • sámonaturally
French ben ouais
  • ben ouaisnaturally
German na klar
  • na klarnaturally
Russian есте́ственно, само́ собо́й
  • есте́ственно (jestéstvenno)naturally
  • само́ собо́й (samó sobój)naturally
  • я́сен пень (jásen penʹ)naturally
Spanish naturalmente, por supuesto
  • naturalmentenaturally
  • por supuestonaturally

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with natch

matchpatchcatchattachbatchscratchdispatchbachhatchlatchmismatchdetachrematchtachthatchBandersnatchklatchcratcheyecatchflatchGreat ThatchLittle Thatchoutmatchstatch
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Anagrams

chant
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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