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hotch

verbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//hɒtʃ//

To move irregularly up and down.

verb

  1. 1

    To move irregularly up and down.

  2. 2

    To swarm (with).

    What if I went up? Imagine nobody had done it before. It would be hotching with balls and stuff, hundreds of things.

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman hocher, Middle French hocher, from a Germanic source (compare Dutch hutsen, hossen, German hotzen).

Forms

past tense
hotched
past participle
hotched
present participle
hotching
third person singular
hotches
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).