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English
Verb
kotch (third-person singular simple present kotches, present participle kotching, simple past and past participle kotched)
- (Jamaica, slang, intransitive) Alternative form of cotch
2012, Claudette Beckford-Brady, Sweet Home, Jamaica, page 390:We would bring them a change of clothing tomorrow when we returned if they told us what to bring. They had no objections, and Delroy stayed with them. The Campbell cousins were also staying overnight, kotching wherever they could […]
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Etymology
From Middle English cacchen. Cognate with English cotch.
Pronunciation
Verb
kotch
- catch, caught
1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 106:Mot earch oan to aar die. Ich mosth kotch a bat.- But every one to his day. I must catch the bat.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 51