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English
Adverb
natch (not comparable)
- (colloquial) Naturally; of course.
- ✤ The Queen was seen wearing a hat when she visited Ascot, natch.
- ✤ [Bug:] You can parry and thrust wittily at a press conference?
[Dog:] Natch.1- ✤ 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).2
- ✤ The size of Trump’s penis? Somewhere between 6-7cm. All of this is foretold in Revelation 6:7, natch.3
Noun
natch (plural natches)
- The rump of beef, especially the lower and back part of the rump.
Noun
natch (plural natches)
- (dialect) A notch.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /næt͡ʃ/
- Audio (Southern England): 🔊
- Rhymes: -ætʃ
Etymology 1
Clipping of naturally, originally US.
Etymology 2
From Old French nache, Late Latin natica, from Latin natis (“the rump, buttocks”). Compare aitchbone.
Etymology 3
Printed 2026-06-28.
(echo:: @ ⌗)
Link to original Footnotes
1960 May 16, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 146: ↩
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 4 August 2025: ↩
2025 October 16, Zach Vasquez, “‘Explicit and outrageous’: South Park is back with its most gratuitous episode since naked Trump”, in The Guardian , →ISSN: ↩
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