notch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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”).
Inflected forms:
form: notches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: notches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: notching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: notched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: notched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A V-shaped cut.
pos: noun
gloss: A V-shaped cut.
pos: noun
examples: The notches in that tribe's warrior axe handles stand for killed enemies.
gloss: An indentation.
pos: noun
gloss: A mountain pass; a defile.
pos: noun
gloss: The female primary sex organ, vulva.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 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.
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.
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.
gloss: A woman.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: 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
gloss: A discontinuous change in a taxation schedule.
pos: noun
gloss: A level or degree.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: This car is a notch better than the other.
Can you speak a notch louder, please?
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.
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.
gloss: A portion of a mobile phone that overlaps the edge of the screen, used to house a camera, sensors etc. while maximizing screen space.
pos: noun
gloss: To cut a notch in (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To record (a score or similar) by making notches on something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The tribe's hunters notch their kills by notches on each's axe's handle.
gloss: To join by means of notches.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To achieve (something); to add to one's score or record of successes.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: The team notched a pair of shutout wins on Sunday.
Jenkins booted a pair of field goals, Hopkins and George Nwokoji each notched a touchdown.
gloss: Synonym of nock (“to fit (an arrow) to a bow”).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Notching an arrow on the string of his tried and unerring bow, he raised his sinewy arms […]
As Uncle Bunse threw his armful of stuff into the canoe, half a dozen other Indians crept forward, notching their arrows to shoot.
gloss: To change in small graduations.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to notch back a salary
Derived words: 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
notchable
notcher
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: խազ
roman: xaz
lang: Armenian
word: քարթ
roman: kʻartʻ
lang: Bulgarian
word: рязка
roman: rjazka
lang: Bulgarian
word: жлеб
roman: žleb
lang: Catalan
word: osca
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 刻痕
roman: kèhén
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 凹痕
roman: āohén
lang: Dutch
word: kerf
lang: Esperanto
word: noĉo
lang: Finnish
word: lovi
lang: French
word: entaille
lang: Galician
word: entalla
lang: Galician
word: osca
lang: Galician
word: ozca
lang: German
word: Kerbe
lang: German
word: Nut
lang: German
word: Furche
lang: Hungarian
word: rovátka
lang: Ingrian
word: pykälä
lang: Irish
word: scór
lang: Italian
word: tacca
lang: Japanese
word: ノッチ
roman: notchi
lang: Macedonian
word: за́рез
roman: zárez
lang: Macedonian
word: за́решка
roman: záreška
lang: Māori
word: kāniwha
lang: Māori
word: kakari
lang: Māori
word: arapata
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: hakk
lang: Polish
word: karb
lang: Polish
word: nacięcie
lang: Polish
word: wręb
lang: Polish
word: narzaz
lang: Portuguese
word: chanfro
lang: Portuguese
word: entalho
lang: Romanian
word: crestătură
lang: Russian
word: зару́бка
roman: zarúbka
lang: Russian
word: вы́емка
roman: výjemka
lang: Russian
word: паз
roman: paz
lang: Russian
word: вы́рез
roman: výrez
lang: Russian
word: пропи́л
roman: propíl
lang: Slovak
word: zárez
lang: Spanish
word: escotadura
lang: Spanish
word: ranura
lang: Spanish
word: muesca
lang: Spanish
word: entalladura
lang: Spanish
word: tarja
lang: Spanish
word: mella
lang: Swedish
word: hack
lang: Welsh
word: rhic