hooch

• IPA^(key): /huːt͡ʃ/

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• Rhymes: -uːtʃ

Abbreviation of hoochinoo, name of a specific liquor, from Tlingit Xutsnoowú Ḵwáan, the group that produced it, from Hutsnuwu (“grizzly bear fort”), the name of the village on Admiralty Island in which they lived. From Tlingit xóots (“grizzly bear”).

• hootch

hooch (countable and uncountable, plural hooches)

1. (Canada, US, informal) An alcoholic beverage, especially an inferior or illicit one and especially liquor such as whisky.
   • c. 1910, O.M. Salisbury, chapter 3, in Quoth the raven: A little journey into the primitive, Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, published 1962, page 17:

     he was so grief-stricken that he literally drowned his sorrow in “hootch-i-noo,” the native equivalent of whiskey. […] Had he not been so sad he would not have drunk the “hootch,” and if he had not drunk the hootch he would not have died: a perfectly reasonable and logical argument.

   • 1997, Kevin Smith, Chasing Amy, spoken by Banky Edwards (Jason Lee):

     Bring on the free hooch!

• moonshine

Borrowed from Japanese 家(うち) (uchi, “house”).

• hootch

hooch (plural hooches)

1. (Vietnam War-era military slang) A thatched hut, CHU, or any simple dwelling.
   • 2022 December 6, Avatar: The Way of Water, spoken by Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang):

     Burn the hooches.

hooch (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of hoosh (“type of stew”).

• HCOOH

• hoch (Germanized spelling)
• hōch (Aargau, Basel, Schaffhausen, Solothurn)
• hööch (Aargau, Appenzell, Basel, Bern, Glarus, Lucerne, St. Gallen, Zürich)
• höüch (Schwyz)
• hoch, hòch (Walser)

From Middle High German hōch, from Old High German hōh. Cognate with German hoch, Dutch hoog, English high, Icelandic hár, Swedish hög.

• IPA^(key): /hoːx/

hooch (comparative hööcher, superlative hööchschte)

1. high

   Antonym: tüüf

   • 1966, Georg Thürer, Rund umme Blattetisch, page 59:

     Der goldig Sunneboge wird hööcher und hööcher.

     The golden sun's path climbs higher and higher.

From Middle Low German hôch, earlier hô (inflected stem hôg-), from Old Saxon hōh.

Compare German hoch, Dutch hoog, Saterland Frisian hag, English high, Danish høj.

• IPA^(key): /ɦoːx/

hooch (comparative höger, superlative an'n hööchsten)

1. high
2. tall

• leeg

From Rhine Franconian houch, from Middle High German hoch, from Old High German hōh. Compare German hoch, Dutch hoog, English high.

hooch

1. high
2. tall

hooch (masculine hogen, feminine, plural or definite hoge)

1. alternative spelling of hoog