stoachv.
/stəʊtʃ/ dialect.
transitive. To trample (wet ground) into holes. Also absol. or intransitive. Comb. stoach-way n. (see quot. 1853).
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > heavily > trample (wet) ground into holes
stoach1733
the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > channel > [noun] > navigable channel through shoals, etc.
channel1536
thoroughfare1598
swatch1626
traversea1645
pilot water1653
swash1694
pass1698
waterway1759
water lane1779
swatchway1798
fairwater1802
swash-way1839
water gate1850
stoach-way1853
seaway1866
swash channel1885
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk upon or tread [verb (transitive)] > tread heavily > trample (wet) ground into holes
stoach1910
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 20 Neither the Turnep, nor artificial Grass will answer, by reason of the Cattles stolching.
1836 W. D. Cooper Gloss. Provinc. Sussex 31 Stoach, to make an impression on wet land, as oxen do in winter.
1853 W. D. Cooper Gloss. Provincialisms Sussex (ed. 2) 79 Stoache-way, the Channel at low water, which lies between the pier-head and the deep water, running through low sand. So used at Rye Harbour.
1910 R. Kipling Rewards & Fairies 282 The ground about was poached and stoached with sliding hoof-marks.
Derivatives
ˈstoachy adj. dirty.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective]
uncleaneOE
horyc1000
foulOE
fennilicha1225
sutya1225
mixc1225
blackc1300
solwyc1325
bawdy1377
filthyc1384
nastyc1390
sowlyc1400
soryc1440
uncleanly1447
mossyc1450
dungyc1494
bedirted1528
slubberly?1529
filthish1530
deturpate?1533
mucky1538
stercorous1542
bluterc1550
dungish?1550
puddly1559
drumly1563
suddle1568
parbruilyiedc1586
sluttered1589
dirty1600
ordurous?1606
immund1621
turpie1633
sterquilinious1647
bruckled1648
cloacal1656
foede1657
stercorose1727
murky1755
sterquilinian1772
cloacinean1814
floy1820
poucey1829
stoachy1836
mullocky1839
muckering1841
sewery1851
dutty1853
dauby1855
cloacean1859
mucky1863
bilgy1878
cloacaline1879
muck-heapy1881
cloacinal1887
schmutzig1911
grufty1922
scabrous1939
mawkit1962
feechie1975
1836 W. D. Cooper Gloss. Provinc. Sussex 31 A stoachy road.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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