Home › Words › H › hotchhotch/hɒtʃ/hotch · verb — to move irregularly up and down.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).hotch is pronounced /hɒtʃ/.EtymologyFrom Anglo-Norman hocher, Middle French hocher, from a Germanic source (compare Dutch hutsen, hossen, German hotzen).verbTo move irregularly up and down.To swarm (with).e.g.“What if I went up? Imagine nobody had done it before. It would be hotching with balls and stuff, hundreds of things.” — 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 314:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).