sitch

plural sitches · alternative sytch · alternative sitche · alternative sytch · alternative sich · alternative siche

1. dialectalA brook; an occasional small waterway: a ditch, a gutter or drain; a ravine.

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   This is the boundary at Earnleie: First from Earesbrook and [qu. to] the short thorns, […] from the pit to Heortseges brook, along the brook to the mouth, and from the mouth to Byinnig-brook, and thence up along the brook to the sitch (i.e. runnel), and from the sitch to Sciteresford, and from the ford to Bromes Combe, […]

   1908, Collections for a History of Staffordshire, page 107

plural sitches

1. slangA situation.

   So here's the sitch: Bruce Banner and Betty Ross Talbot are falling from roughly eight miles high.

   2005, Lois H. Gresh, Robert E. Weinberg, The science of supervillains, John Wiley and Sons, page 1

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   Valeska had insisted 'she' stay, sleep where it was definitely safe. Just 'til the sitch could be settled.

   2007, George Bennett Fain, Pandora's Box, Lulu.com, page 159

   Maybe one is more introspective and the other is more outgoing. Whatever the sitch, you two balance each other out.

   2008, Editors of TEEN magazine, Teen Uncover the Real You: A Quiz Book, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., page 2

   Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Great, I'll see you back in there. Also, I wouldn't lose my mind if you decided to chew a stick of gum. Thanks for understanding the sitch, Gina, you're a china doll.

   2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)

   ETHAN: Nope, haven't seen him. But you should always call me when you need help, Mik. Especially when you're in a bad sitch. / MICHAELA: Well, I was in a bad "sitch," Ethan, but I was fine because I had Simone.

   2014, Molly Smith Metzler, Elemeno Pea, →ISBN, page 49

   “I joined Starfleet to piss off my dad, not to be a virus bomb.” “Peanut Hamper, this is not cool!” “We're all going to die!” “Peanut Hamper! There are so many lives at stake!” “You know what? I'm just going to beam myself out of this whole sitch. Sucks to be organic. Enjoy having all your guts fly out or whatever!” “You know what? Peanut Hamper is a stupid name!”

   2020 October 8, Mike McMahan, “No Small Parts” (17:52 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 1, episode 10, spoken by Peanut Hamper (Kether Donohue)

1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of such.

   They stops you on the sly in the streets, and tells you to call at their house at sitch a hour of the day, and when you goes there they smuggles you quietly into some room by yourselves, and then sets to work Jewing away as hard as they can, prizing up their own things, and downcrying yourn.

   1864, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor