natch

• IPA^(key): /næt͡ʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ætʃ

Clipping of naturally.

natch (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) Naturally; of course.

   The Queen was seen wearing a hat when she visited Ascot, natch.

   • 1960 May 16, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 146:

     [Bug:] You can parry and thrust wittily at a press conference?
     [Dog:] Natch.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:natch.

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

natch (plural natches)

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

natch (plural natches)

1. (dialect) A notch.

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