gouch

English

Noun

gouch (plural gouches)

1. (slang) Alternative form of gooch
   • 2019, John McLean, The John Donne Experiment‎^[1], page 293:

     Fingal counted eleven tick bites - that he could see. A few more could be felt: one on his left arse cheek, for example, one on his scalp, and two in the perineum, or the gouch, the area of skin between a human's anus and scrotum (some Australians, he'd learned, also referred to the gouch as the as the aintcha, as in "well it aintcha balls, or your arse") Binjari ticks loved the gouch.

Verb

gouch (third-person singular simple present gouches, present participle gouching, simple past and past participle gouched)

1. (UK, slang) to feel drowsy due to the effects of heroin
   • 2020 November 21, Christina O'Neill, “40 things to do while staying at home during Tier 4 lockdown”, in Glasgow Live‎^[2]:

     The TV is everyone's go-to when they're off and gouching in the house.

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