A Scottish and Northern English dialect word meaning to catch or to crouch down.
Scots/Northern English variant of 'catch,' with roots in Old English 'kecchen.' Regional dialects in Britain maintained slightly different pronunciations and forms of common words that diverged from standard English.
Scottish English is full of these 'lost' versions of common words—'cauch' for catch, 'hoose' for house—which shows that modern English is actually just one version that won out, while other equally valid versions got sidelined!
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