单词 | hotch |
释义 | hotchn. Scottish and English regional (east midlands and northern). Now rare. A jerk or jolt; a shift; a shrug. Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records the word as still in use in Lothian, Kirkcudbrightshire, and Roxburghshire in 1957. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > [noun] > jerking > a jerk spang1513 lipe1545 job1560 jert1568 abraid1570 jerk1575 flirta1592 yark1610 slip1615 flerka1653 hitch1674 toss1676 hotch1721 saccade1728 surge1748 flip1821 snatch1822 fling1826 kick1835 chuckc1843 jolt1849 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 79 Carry a Lady to Rome, and give her one Hatch, all is done. a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 176 Uncanny hotches Frae clumsy carts or hackney-coaches. 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. (1876) 163 He gave his showthers a hotch, and answered. 1833 J. Galt in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 506/1 Giving at every pause a judicious hotch from the one side to the other, which showed that he understood it. 1896 H. Johnston Dr. Congalton's Legacy i Whiles he wud gie a hotch o' a laugh. 1914 N. Munro New Road ii. 24 She never mentioned it, but every time I did, I saw her give a hotch upon her chair. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hotchv. Now Scottish and English regional and Irish English (northern) 1. a. intransitive. To move or progress jerkily up and down, to jog; to shift about with discomfort or impatience; to fidget. Also: to jog along on horseback. Cf. hotter v. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > make sudden movement [verb (intransitive)] > jerk hotchc1440 hitch?1518 jerk1606 flounce1609 fluce1627 yarka1640 quirk1821 flip1862 c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 3687 Archers of Inglande full egerly schottes..Sonne hotchen in holle the heþenne knyghtes. 1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie sig. Miiij Quhen our gude nichtbors rydis..Some hotcheand on a hemp stalk, hovand on a heicht. a1586 Peblis to Play 197 So hevelie he hochit about, To se him, lord as thai ran. a1605 A. Montgomerie Sonnets (1887) lxvi With old bogogers, hotching on a sped. ?1748 ‘T. Bobbin’ View Lancs. Dial. (ed. 2) (Gloss.) Hotching, to limp, to go by jumps, as toads. 1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 186 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 563 Even Satan glowr'd, and fidg'd fu' fain, And hotch'd and blew wi' might and main. 1847 J. Halliday Rustic Bard 318 Horsemen are hotchin like Bonaparte's cavalry. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xiii. 144 Here am I, fair hotching to be off. 1900 J. Good Gloss. Words E. Lincs. Hotch, to jog along, to trot. 1917 N. Munro Jimmy Swan 300 He just hotched on his stool, glowered ower his specs at me, and let me ken there was naething doin'. 1963 ‘A. Bridge’ Dangerous Islands v. 83 Philip will be hotching to get away. 1978 Jrnl. Lakeland Dial. Soc. No. 40. 33 Ye con pictur' me hotchin' aboot on t'edge ov a hard chair. 2000 M. Fitt But n Ben A-go-go xvi. 120 Needles an pins hotched in his legs but the thocht o the satellites stravaigin the earth's orbit abinn stang him on. b. transitive. To cause to move in this way; to shake up with a jerky motion; to hitch; to hunch. Also reflexive: to shift along in a sitting position to make room for others. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > cause to move suddenly [verb (transitive)] > jerk braida1000 hitch1440 spang1513 jog1548 jert1566 jerk1582 gag1587 to toss up1588 tossa1618 thrip1674 shrug1678 flip1712 hotch1823 switch1842 slirt1870 hoick1898 quirk1978 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. ii. 52 Are ye sure ye hae room eneugh, sir?—I wad fain hotch mysell farther yont. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words (at cited word) When they shake potatoes in a bag, so that they may lie the closer, they are said to hotch them. 1866 Durham Lead-m. Lang. Hotch, to shake with a sharp jerk a trough with a grated bottom, suspended in water, at the end of a long lever, and containing crushed lead ore. 1894 P. H. Hunter James Inwick p. xii Their sleeves hotched up ower their shouthers. 1924 T. Wright Romance of Lace Pillow (new ed.) I. xii. 118 She..‘hotched’ an end of the thread on to the head of a bobbin. 1952 E. Fife Observer 29 May When cauld winds blaw, and snaw shooers freeze,..They hotch their shoothers. 2. intransitive. To swarm. Frequently with with. Also figurative: to be in a ferment. Cf. hotter v. 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of people or animals > in large numbers thringOE threngc1175 crowda1400 flocka1400 swarm1526 growl1542 throngc1565 shoala1618 horde1801 bike1805 fry1816 hotch1893 1782 Graham's Hist. John Cheap (new ed.) iii. 21 My Sannock's head's a hotchen, and our John's a little better. 1825 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 369 When there's sae strong a spirit of life hotchin' ower yearth and sea in this very century. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words The place is fair hotchin wi' rabbits. a1908 H. C. Hart MS Coll. Ulster Words in M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal (1953) 145 Hooch, of a place : to be alive or over-run with. ‘The place was hoochin' with rats’. 1910 J. Buchan Prester John vi. 101 The native population of the countryside had suddenly been hugely increased. The woods were simply hotching with them. 1931 J. T. S. Leask Peculiar People 132 Da wives waar juest hotchan hereaboot dan. 1965 J. Caird Murder Reflected ix. 108 Tripped over a stool. The place hotches with them. 1981 A. MacLean River of Death 84 The estate is hotching with trained killers as guards. 1997 I. Rankin Black & Blue (1999) 186 I hear the rigs are hoaching with dope. Did you ever see any? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1721v.c1440 |
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