Crotch Meaning
/kɹɑt͡ʃ/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe ventral area (very bottom) of the human body between where the legs fork from the torso, in the area of the genitals and anus.
nounEither the male or female genitalia.
Sentence Examples
I have an itchy crotch.
Doctor, I've got an itch in my crotch.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The tailor carefully measured the inseam from the ____ to the ankle.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I have an itchy ____.
Word Origin & History
Of disputed origin; two possibilities seem likely: * From Middle English croche, variant of crucche (“crutch”); compare crook. * From Middle English croche, variant of crouche (“cross, crozier”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"We were turned at a slight angle to each other, our shoulders touching and I put my hand on his crotch. Miles seemed to be expecting it. He chuckled, took a pair of compasses and jammed them into the door above the latch. This was called ‘sporting the oak’ and was the recognized way of locking oneself in. Over the next eighteen months we sported our oaks with great frequency."
— 1984, Hallam Tennyson, “Needful Parts”, in The Haunted Mind: An Autobiography, London: André Deutsch, →ISBN, page 46:
"In one crotch of the old peach-tree, just by the wall, sat a second cousin of the little eight-eyed fellow we had left up stairs, with her web spread on the most geometric model, and a young and promising family of spiders and spideresses practising gymnastics in the fairy rigging; […]"
— 1836 September, J. H. P., “Spiders and their Moral”, in The Western Messenger; Devoted to Religion and Literature, volume II, number 2, Louisville, Ky.: […] [T]he Western Unitarian Association; Boston, Mass.: James Munroe & Co. […], published 1837, page 122:
"Tarzan wondered if he would stalk him to his cabin door. He hoped not, for that would mean a night’s sleep curled in the crotch of a tree, and he much preferred the bed of grasses within his own abode. But he knew just the tree and the most comfortable crotch, if necessity demanded that he sleep out."
— 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 121:
"I remember crotching a bottle of Corona out of a pub on Commercial Drive and nursing it with Cancer as we stumbled towards my car ."
— 2008, Patrick Blennerhassett, Monument, page 182:
"I crotched them. I put them in my underwear."
— 2014, Ryan Patrick Sullivan, Mrs. O'Leary's Cow, page 107:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The tailor carefully measured the inseam from the ____ to the ankle.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I have an itchy ____.