Hotch

//hɒtʃ// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To move irregularly up and down. Scotland
  2. 2
    To swarm (with). Scotland

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

Example

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"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).

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