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ginch en · NOUN · etymology 1
Etymology
Variation of gotch, from Ukrainian га́чі (háči), ґа́чі (gáči).
Meanings
(British-Columbia, qualifier:Alberta, slang) Underwear, especially men's briefs.
I got the hang of it after about 20 or 30 sheets and was settling into the routine when, reaching into the trolley, I was horrified to spy a pair of men’s Jockey underpants in amongst the sheets. I stopped cold and let out a shriek (remember, I was 14). Shirley calmly looked into the trolley and said, “Oh for Christ’s sake – it’s just a pair of ginch!” 2012 July 14, Sandi Bezanson-Chan, “Summer Jobs Series: Learning to handle 'ginch' in the hotel laundry”, in National Post:
Grabbing clean pants and ginch, I get re-dressed. 2012, Kim Firmston, Hook Up, James Lorimer & Company Ltd., published 2012, →ISBN, page 25:
She stowed the ginch she had just received as a gift in the dresser out of harm's way. 2000, John Farrow, City of Ice, HarperCollins, published 2000, →ISBN, page 71:
She probably up there getting her ginch plowed right this minute by some drummer out of Richmond. 1977, Dotson Rader, Miracle, page 67:
(broadly) A woman, viewed as a potential or actual sexual partner.
What reason would he have to try it, even, except to show off for this ginch? 2014, R. V. Cassill, The Happy Marriage: And Other Stories:
I mean, it was possible—theoretically, like Art always says—that Lisa had just lucked out, that Leslie Plunkett just happened to be on the Bad Boy's shitlist, all unbeknownst to his pet ginch, and that the Bad Boy had, conveniently for her, eliminated the little shyster. 2014, Anne W. Shubert, Bad Boy:
The unquenchable Hagen of the Screw Shack prowls the Stampede for ginch ahoof and comes back to the bus with nice little girl with lips as raunchy as a swig of grape soda, tender in age but ne'mind, ready to go, and she is on the bus, christened Anonymous, down to her bra and panties, which she prefers. 1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →OCLC, page 112:
(broadly) An effeminate man.
But, you know, she's struggling, she's got a kid. Just don't be a ginch, all right?" So, of course, you don't want anyone to think you're a ginch, plus maybe you're not particularly thrilled about the idea of using a hooker either. 2000, Andrew Klavan, Hunting Down Amanda, page 11: