Lexicographical Neighbors of Hotched
Literary usage of Hotched
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms in Use in the County by William Douglas Parish, William Francis Shaw (1888)
"To move awkwardly or with difficulty in an irregular and scrambling way. French,
hocher, to shake, jog, &c. " He hotched along on the floor to the top of ..."
2. The World's Best Poetry by Bliss Carman (1904)
"... And hotched and blew wi' might and main; Till first ae caper, syne anither,—
Tamn timmt his reason a' ..."
3. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. by John Gibson Lockhart (1837)
"A lang kail-gully hung down by his side, And a great meikle nowt-horn to rout on
had he," And meikle and sair we routed on't, and " hotched and blew, ..."
4. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1874)
"And meikle and sair we routed on't, and " hotched and blew wi' micht and main."
O what pleasant days! and then a' the nonsense we had cost us nothing. ..."
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