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gotch dial.|gɒtʃ|
Also 9 gotsch.
a. A big-bellied earthenware pot or jug.
1674–91Ray S. & E.C. Words 100 A Gotch, a large earthen or stone drinking Pot with a great Belly like a Jugg. 1784Sir J. Cullum Hist. Hawsted iii. 171 A Gotch, a jug, or big-bellied mug. 1801Bloomfield Rural T. (1802) 5 A Gotch of Milk I'd been to fill, You shoulder'd me; then laugh'd to see Me and my Gotch spin down the Hill. 1857Borrow Romany Rye (1858) I. 9 Then taking the gotch I fetched water from the spring.
b. Comb.: gotch-eared adj. gotch-belly (see quot.); gotch-gutted a., corpulent.
1694Echard Plautus 165 Did ye see e'r an old Bald-pated,..Gotch Gutted, Squint-Ey'd, Sour-Fac'd Rascal? a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Gotch-belly, a fair round belly, much resembling the protuberance of a gotch. 1905C. Driscoll Girl of La Gloria iii. 21 The maveriquer..usually rode a gotch-eared Mexican pony. a1910‘O. Henry’ Strictly Business (1917) ix. 91 You are a concentrated, effete, unconditional, short-sleeved, gotch-eared Miss Sally Walker.
Hence † ˈgotchy a., bloated, swollen.
1596Nashe Saffron Walden 48 No French gowtie-leg with a gamash vpon it, is so gotchie and boystrous. |