Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Cotch
verb (vulgar).—To catch. [A corruption.] Also ppl. adj., COTCHED.
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1889. Pall Mall Gazette, Oct. 12, p. 5, col. 2. Taken before some French beak whom he did not know, and an interpreter brought, the COTCHED culprit was made to pay 20 f.
