English

Noun

gotch ‎(uncountable)

1. (Saskatchewan and Manitoba, slang) Men's underwear.
   • 1998, Steven Erikson, This River Awakens, Tor (2013), ISBN 9780765334992, unnumbered page:

     I stopped beside Carl. 'Go ahead,' I told him. 'Pull his gotch right up over his **** head.'

   • 2009, Milton Ramsden, Northward to Love, Trafford Publishing (2009), ISBN 9781425190262, page 56:

     Hilly howled as he lit the lamp and dove toward us clad in only his gotch.

   • 2013, D. W. Wilson, Ballistics, Hamish Hamilton (2013), ISBN 9780670065752, unnumbered page:

     So I was off atop a mountain, a day out of town and soaked through the gotch, when Jack spotted the American car.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:gotch.

Derived terms

• gitch
• gaunch, gonch, ginch (Alberta, British Columbia)
• gotchies, gitchies, gonchies (diminutive)

References

• “gaunch", "gonch", "gotch", "gotchies", "ginch", "gitch” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Barber, Katherine. "11 Favourite Regionalisms Within Canada", in David Vallechinsky and Amy Wallace (2005). The Book of Lists, Canadian Edition. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-676-97720-2.