verb
hotch
hoch
verb
1
To jerk or jiggle irregularly, moving up and down in short, uneven motions.
"The old cart hotched along the rutted track."
2
To be crowded or swarming with something.
"The riverbank was hotching with midges by evening."
How to Use Hotch
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA dialect word for jerking about restlessly, or for a place being crammed full of something.
When to use it
Chiefly regional/dialect (Scots and northern English); rarely seen in standard writing.
Word Forms
hotched past tense, hotches singular
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Etymology
From Anglo-Norman hocher, ultimately from a Germanic root related to jiggling or shaking.