Meanings
alternative watcha · alternative wotcha · alternative wotcher · alternative whatchya · alternative whutcha
- abbreviationcolloquialcontractionContraction of what + are + you.
Whatcha doin'?
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Whatcha talking 'bout?
Whatcha sayin'?
There were plenty of ostentatiously noisy walkouts during the last half of Eric De Kuyper's Naughty Boys (Netherlands), which is understandable. On the other hand, I loved the film and found it continually fascinating, so whatcha gonna do?
1986 February 1, Nicholas Deutsch, “7th Annual New York Gay Film Festival”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 28, page 8 - abbreviationcolloquialcontractionContraction of what + you.
Do whatcha gotta do!
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'Tain't whatcha do, it's the way thatcha do it.
If you’re lookin’ but not seein’, here’s whatcha do
1973 July, Toledo Hanson, “How to Be a Happy Spectator”, in Pete Szilagyi, editor, Motocross Action Magazine, Encino, Calif.: Hi-Torque Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38, column 1
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*kʷ-
- Proto-Indo-European*kʷís
- Proto-Germanic*hwat
- Proto-West Germanic*hwat
- Old Englishhwæt
- Middle Englishwhat
- Englishwhat
- Englishwhatcha
Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
whatcha. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whatcha
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