kotch

English

Verb

kotch (third-person singular simple present kotches, present participle kotching, simple past and past participle kotched)

  1. (Jamaica, slang, intransitive) Alternative form of cotch
    • 2012, Claudette Beckford-Brady, Sweet Home, Jamaica, page 390:
      We would bring them a change of clothing tomorrow when we returned if they told us what to bring. They had no objections, and Delroy stayed with them. The Campbell cousins were also staying overnight, kotching wherever they could […]

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Etymology

From Middle English cacchen.

Verb

kotch

  1. catch, caught

References
  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 51
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