crotch
English
/kɹɑtʃ/, /kɹɒtʃ/
noun
Definitions
- The area where something forks or branches, a ramification takes place.
- The ventral area (very bottom) of the human body between where the legs fork from the torso, in the area of the genitals and anus.
- (slang) Either the male or female genitalia.
- (billiards) In the three-ball carom game, a small space at each corner of the table.
- (typography) The open counter (negative space) formed by two downward strokes that meet at an internal acute angle, potentially above a vertex, as in the letters "V" and "Y".
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English crotche derived from Old French croche (shepherd's crook).
Origin
Old French
croche
Gloss
shepherd's crook
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- crotchal English
- crotchdropping English
- crotched English
- crotchful English
- crotchless English
- crotchline English
- crotchling English
- dropping English
- line English
- croche Middle English
- crotche Middle English
- croche Old French
- croche Middle French
- *krok Frankish