Sitch
det, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A brook; an occasional small waterway: a ditch, a gutter or drain; a ravine. dialectal
"This is the boundary at Earnleie: First from Earesbrook and [qu. to] the short thorns, […] from the pit to Heortseges brook, along the brook to the mouth, and from the mouth to Byinnig-brook, and thence up along the brook to the sitch (i.e. runnel), and from the sitch to Sciteresford, and from the ford to Bromes Combe, […]"
- 2 A situation. slang
"So here's the sitch: Bruce Banner and Betty Ross Talbot are falling from roughly eight miles high."
- 1 Pronunciation spelling of such. alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
"They stops you on the sly in the streets, and tells you to call at their house at sitch a hour of the day, and when you goes there they smuggles you quietly into some room by yourselves, and then sets to work Jewing away as hard as they can, prizing up their own things, and downcrying yourn."
Synonyms
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More examples"This is the boundary at Earnleie: First from Earesbrook and [qu. to] the short thorns, […] from the pit to Heortseges brook, along the brook to the mouth, and from the mouth to Byinnig-brook, and thence up along the brook to the sitch (i.e. runnel), and from the sitch to Sciteresford, and from the ford to Bromes Combe, […]"
Etymology
From Middle English sich, siche, from Old English sīċ (“a watercourse; sike”), from Proto-West Germanic *sīk, from Proto-Germanic *sīką (“slow flowing water; a trickle”).
Clipping of situation, with phonetic respelling.
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