Hot Gossip - 13 February 2023
A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
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A Little Putch on Your Tuckus?
The German word potch P-A-T-S-C-H means a slap and it's probably on a monopoetic. It came to be used in German to refer to an attempt to overthrow a government or an armed insurrection. In Spanish the word for that kind of thing is, is gulpé, a striking. And so a putch is a strike against a government and the related word potch in German means slap which has been adopted into dialectal English as putch. Martha you said something about a potch in Tukis which is a clue to more information that you can drop on us.
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