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English
Verb
tetch (third-person singular simple present tetches, present participle tetching, simple past and past participle tetched)
- (regional) Pronunciation spelling of touch.
1877, Samuel Woodworth Cozzens, The Young Trail Hunters:"Wal, I sot there, eatin' away, and, the fust thing I knowed, I kind 'er felt suthin' tetch my shoulder.
1880, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Roughing It:The minute we'd tetch off a blast 'n' the fuse'd begin to sizzle, he'd give a look as much as to say: 'Well, I'll have to git you to excuse me,' an' it was surpris'n' the way he'd shin out of that hole 'n' go f'r a tree.
1919, O. Henry, Roads of Destiny:"Miss Lucy tetch you on de shoulder," continued the old man, never heeding, "wid a s'ord, and say: 'I mek you a knight, Suh Robert--rise up, pure and fearless and widout reproach.'
Noun
tetch (plural tetches)
- Pronunciation spelling of touch.
2001 November 2, Monica Kendrick, “Spot Check”, in Chicago Reader:The three songs I've heard so far are low-key and restrained, with a tetch of honky-tonk tension--the sound of a heart being bounced up and down like a squishy yo-yo.