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▪ I. natch, n. Now dial.|nætʃ|
Forms: 6 natche, 7 nach, 9 natch.
[? var. of notch.]
A notch. Hence natch v., to cut notches in; natched, notched, indented.
1570Levins Manip. 38/7 A Natche, incisura. Ibid. 14 To Natche, incidere. 1578Lyte Dodoens 43 Brounewurte hath..leaues natched or dented rounde about. 1659New Haven Col. Rec. (1858) II. 276 A gray mare..branded on y⊇ neare shoulder with an S, wth a nach on y⊇ further eare. 1878–in dial. glossaries, etc. (see Eng. Dial. Dict.).
▪ II. natch, adv.|nætʃ|
Colloq. abbrev. of naturally adv. orig. U.S.
1945in L. Shelly Jive Talk Dict. 15/1. 1946 Sun (Baltimore) 24 Sept. 3/3 (Advt.), Natch! Mom's gettin' both of us Hen self-starters... Baltimore's most popular ‘first shoes for babies’. 1953New Yorker 10 Jan. 21/3 Their disapproving papa..inserted a dime, which, he said, would otherwise have gone to buy them a Coca-Cola... Well, natch, this brought a twenty-dime return. 1957P. Wildeblood Main Chance 132 ‘You don't mean to say,’ she whispered tragically, ‘that we're going to eat?’ ‘Why, natch. We're going to have another drink first, though.’ 1962J. Wain Strike Father Dead 60 We went in: Saloon Bar, natch. Lucille may have been Public Bar in her heart, but she was Saloon Bar on the outside. 1968N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 23 June vii. 1/3 The banning—in Boston, natch—of ‘Fanny Hill’ back in 1821. 1970Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 3 July 5/2 A crowd of opulent-looking masochists..were actually savouring this culinary surrealism and, natch, paying through the nose for it. 1971A. Diment Think Inc. ii. 20 They blamed you, natch. 1973Times 29 May 8/5, I went down to Bath to celebrate (along with the coronation of King Edgar, natch) the re-opening of the Assembly Rooms.
▪ III. natch
variant of nautch. |