hotch
verbattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//hɒtʃ//
To move irregularly up and down.
verb
- 1
To move irregularly up and down.
- 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