notch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒtʃ/
ipa: /nɑt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɒtʃ
Forms: form: notches
Etymology: Recorded since 1577, probably a rebracketing of an otch, from Middle French oche (“notch”), itself from the Old French verb ochier (“to notch”), of uncertain origin, but possibly related to French hocher and English nick (“small cut, notch”).
Senses: glosses: A V-shaped cut.
examples: text: The notches in that tribe's warrior axe handles stand for killed enemies.
glosses: A V-shaped cut.
Such a cut, used for keeping a record.
glosses: An indentation.
glosses: A mountain pass; a defile.
examples: text: If this Coin pass, no Man that lives,
Shall dun for Past Debauches;
Zounds, Landlords, send but in your Wifes,
We’ll scow’r off all their Notches.
ref: c. 1720, “The Turnep Ground [A broadside song with music]”, in John S. Farmer, editor, Merry Songs and Ballads prior to the year A. D. 1800 (National Ballad and Song), volume 1, published 1897, page 224:
text: He forced his prick between her reluctant lips, all slimy and soiled as it was from the previous enculade, then producing an enormous dildoe, nearly twelve inches long, and big in proportion, he put a little cold cream on it, and presented the head to her notch, trying to force it in.
“Ah! No! no! that's so awfully large!” she almost screamed, but the head was partly in, and despite her sobs: and moans of pains, he soon succeeded in passing at least ten inches of it into her distended vagina.
ref: 1880, “Lady Pokingham, or They All Do It”, in The Pearl, volume 12:
text: It was some time ere I recovered myself, and then it was through the teasings and ticklings of my lovely tormentors. I had a pallet made on the floor of the cabin from the beds in the staterooms, and putting the lights out, we lay down. I was in the arms of Isabel and soon well repaid her for the pleasure she had given just before.
Thrice did I spend into the most secret recesses of her notch the warm and generous fluid which acts so powerfully on women, and then composed myself for sleep.
ref: 1880, “La Rose D'Amour”, in The Pearl, volume 16:
glosses: The female primary sex organ, vulva.
examples: text: These ladies from the west got game
Who got the best, VA, DC, Georgia, New York, Texas, Louisiana, or Florida
The Middwest got some super notches
You eva seen Cali's finest, man, who could top us
ref: 2003, “California Girls”, in Married to the Game, performed by Too $hort:
glosses: A woman.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A discontinuous change in a taxation schedule.
examples: text: This car is a notch better than the other.
text: Can you speak a notch louder, please?
text: a better team might also have done more to expose Uruguay’s occasionally brittle defence, but England’s speed of thought and movement in their attacking positions was a good notch or two down from the Italy game.
ref: 2014 June 20, Daniel Taylor, “World Cup 2014: Uruguay sink England as Suárez makes his mark”, in guardian.co.uk:
text: Your doctor is one of the nosiest asari I've ever met. And that's saying A LOT. She needs to take it down four or five notches, or I won't be long for this show.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Ugh!:
glosses: A level or degree.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A portion of a mobile phone that overlaps the edge of the screen, used to house a camera, sensors etc. while maximizing screen space.
Derived terms: a notch above
bring down a notch
dial down a notch
jugular notch
knock down a notch
move down a notch
nitch
notch baby
notchback
notchboard
notch count
notch filter
notch girdle
notch in one's bedpost
notch in one's belt
notchless
notch on one's bedpost
notch on the bedpost
notch on one's belt
notchplasty
notchweed
notchwing
notchy
pancreatic notch
pull down a notch
semilunar notch
sigmoid notch
suprasternal notch
take down a notch
tentorial notch
top notch
topnotcher
trochlear notch
umbilical notch