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  • verb Eye dialect spelling of catch.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of catch.

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Examples

  • A sorry ghost, to be sure, that has nothing better to do than to "cotch"

    The Young Mountaineers Short Stories Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

  • '' Cos if you had a-guessed it you'd ha 'cotch'd a left-hand body-blow that' ud most like ha 'killed you.

    Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

  • "He lef 'me a tol'able sum, but li'l Hannah see the on'y real money is white money, so Ah set me to cotch some."

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • April 16, 2008 at 4:28 pm ttfn klolz cotch sum zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzs

    Cat Basics, week 3 - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • I didn't like de look ob de bug mouff, myself, no how, so I wouldn't take hold ob him wid my finger, but I cotch him wid a piece ob paper dat I found.

    The Gold-Bug 2006

  • Massa Will cotch him fuss, but had for to let him go gin mighty quick, I tell you — den was de time he must ha got de bite.

    The Gold-Bug 2006

  • "He lef 'me a tol'able sum, but li'l Hannah see the on'y real money is white money, so Ah set me to cotch some."

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • "He lef 'me a tol'able sum, but li'l Hannah see the on'y real money is white money, so Ah set me to cotch some."

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • 'You best be headin' outa here, elsen they cotch you. '

    Mexico Michener, James 1992

  • If ye don 'pay, sooner' r later they cotch up wi 'ye, or sommut turns ye in, an' then they fine ye.

    The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992

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  • Seems to be an old-timey, regional British variant of "catch"

    September 28, 2010