cootch

/ kʊtʃ /

noun

1. a hiding place
2. a room, shed, etc, used for storage

   a coal cootch

verb

1. tr to hide
2. often foll by up to cuddle or be cuddled
3. tr to clasp (someone or something) to oneself

Word History and Origins

Origin of cootch¹

from French couche couch , probably influenced by Welsh cwt hut

Example Sentences

I don't mean to be crass, but I hope you'll appreciate this: It’s almost like asking someone to kick you in the cootch or something.

From Salon

The early shorts produced by Thomas Edison's company opened viewers' eyes to cockfights, cootch dancers and, in 1903, the electrocution and death of Topsy, a Coney Island elephant.

From Time

As Salome, 16-year-old Brigid Bazlen is pretty enough, but as a belly dancer she has too little ootch in her cootch.

From Time Magazine Archive

By the hundreds they have swarmed across a hundred thousand movie screens from Aliquippa to Zagazig �mice that talk and grubs that chainsmoke, squirrels wearing overalls, bashful bunnies, sexy goldfish, tongue-tied ducks and hounds on ice skates, dachshunds bow-tied, pigs at pianos, chickens doing Traviata�even worms that do the cootch.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Pittsburgh, local cootch dancers organized the Oriental Dancers of Pittsburgh, Inc., to fight for better wages.

From Time Magazine Archive