underwear = underpants? - alt.usage.english

Message from discussion underwear = underpants?
From: lau...@erato.usask.ca (Lauria Blackwell)
Subject: Re: underwear = underpants?
Date: 1996/07/10
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What about ginch, gautch (or should it be spelt gotch?) and the
variations on those words? Are these regionalisms? What is
their origin? How should I spell gawtch?

Around here (Saskatchewan, Canada), gautch (gauch?) is a fairly
commonly understood, perhaps slightly vulgar, word for underwear.
It is usually used for male underpants, but can also stand
for panties and even be extended to bras etc. Ginch is sort of
an extension of this as well as gotchies, ginchies, ginchy-gotchies,
and similar words.
 
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