# hotcha
## English
### Alternative forms

* hot-cha

### Etymology

Fanciful extension of hot.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈhɒtʃə/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Adjective

hotcha (comparative more hotcha, superlative most hotcha)
* (US, slang, dated) Flashy, vivacious, attractive, desirable. [from 20th c.]
** 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 53:‘It seems he run Sternwood's hotcha daughter, the young one, off to Yuma.’
* (US, slang, dated) Exciting, lively. [from 20th c.]
** 1935, The Collegiate, Sarnia Collegiate Institute and Technical School, Sarnia, Ontario, May 1935, page 143:
    I've got a job down at the hotcha night club as a featured entertainer.
** 1933, Havana Widows (motion picture press book), Warner Bros. publicity dept., New York, page 11:‘Here come the hotcha gals from Havana.’
** 1942, Bulletin of The American Association of University Professors, October 1942, page 542::‘It becomes a hotcha curb-service by girls with bare thighs.’
* Of or relating to a Harlem style of hot rhythm music, especially jazz. [1930s]
** 1935 May 4, The Billboard, page 13:The passing of Harlem as a hotcha after-dark entertainment center, to a great extent, coupled with the drift towards Broadway of the Harlem spots.
** The Billboard, March 9 1935, p. 16:
    The band […] gives her [Blanche Calloway] excellent support, blaring out the hotcha special arrangements in typical Harlem style.
** Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra, song Hotcha Razz-Ma-Tazz (Andy Razaf, Will Hudson, Irving Mills), recorded January 1934 (Victor 24690)
    Listen, pal, you gotta swing and grab your gal / and do that thing. / Learn that jig-time dancing / called hotcha-razz-ma-tazz […] / Swing your partners one and all / to hotcha razz-ma-tazz.

### Noun

hotcha (plural hotchas)
* A musical composition in the hotcha style.
** 1937, King-Hall Survey 1936, by Stephen King-Hall, Newnes, London, page 93:Jazz - Hotcha v. Swing [...] I seemed to notice a tendency, towards the end of 1936, for [...] 'Hotcha' music to be replaced by 'Swing' music.
** 1935 July, NBC Reception Staff Review, National Broadcasting Company, New York, page 4:NBC Music Library […] the files have to be stocked with every kind of score that exists, including […] Harlem hotchas.
** 1933 November, The Lehigh Burr (vol. 51 no.2), Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., page 12:The dining and dancing establishments have been springing up [...] each adding its bit to the neon glow and the hotcha chorus [...] More hotcha per square inch than any other joint in town.
* (US, slang, dated) An attractive young woman.

### Interjection

hotcha
* (US, slang, dated) An exclamation of excitement, delight or high approval. [from 20th c.]
** La Mezcla, Armijo High School, Fairfield, Calif., June 1933, p. 17:
    Hotcha! Here comes a serving of beer.
** John O'Hara, Appointment in Samarra, Harcourt Brace & Co., 1935, p. 21:
    Did you ever see her in a bathing suit? Hotcha!

### Related terms

* hot

### References

* “hotcha n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
* “hotcha adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
* “hotcha excl.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

## Hadza
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɦotʃʰa/

### Verb

hotcha
* to swell

### Noun

hotcha m (fem. hotchako) (Note: the form after a determiner is hotcha)
* (masc.) pregnancy
* (fem.) abdomen, belly

#### Alternative forms

* otcha