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natch en · ADV · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /næt͡ʃ/

Etymology

Clipping of naturally, originally US.

Meanings

  1. (colloquial, not-comparable) Naturally; of course.
    • The Queen was seen wearing a hat when she visited Ascot, natch.
    • The size of Trump’s penis? Somewhere between 6-7cm. All of this is foretold in Revelation 6:7, natch. 2025 October 16, Zach Vasquez, “‘Explicit and outrageous’: South Park is back with its most gratuitous episode since naked Trump”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
    • [Bug:] You can parry and thrust wittily at a press conference? [Dog:] Natch. 1960 May 16, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 146:
    • Engineers held morning meetings sitting in rainbow-colored beanbags, took lunch gratis at the corporate sushi bar and unwound in the afternoon with craft brews from the office keg (nitrogen chilled, natch). 2025 August 4, Mike Isaac, “A.I. Has Ushered in Silicon Valley’s ‘Hard Tech’ Era”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2025:

Translations (15)

gl loxicamente (naturally) · fr ben ouais (naturally) · es por supuesto (naturally) · cs samo sebou (naturally) · de na klar (naturally) · cs jasan (naturally) · gl por suposto (naturally) · ru есте́ственно (naturally) · cs jasně (naturally) · bg разбира се (naturally) · cs sámo (naturally) · es naturalmente (naturally) · gl naturalmente (naturally) · ru я́сен пень (naturally) · ru само́ собо́й (naturally)

natch en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /næt͡ʃ/

Etymology

From Old French nache, Late Latin natica, from Latin natis (“the rump, buttocks”). Compare aitchbone.

Meanings

  1. The rump of beef, especially the lower and back part of the rump.

Forms

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Deriveds

natch-bone

natch en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /næt͡ʃ/

Meanings

  1. (dialectal) A notch.

Forms

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