notch

CEFRC1

/nɒtʃ/

noun · verb

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In plain English

01
noun
A small cut or mark in an edge or surface.
02
verb
To achieve or record something.

Examples

The inquiry has been cranked up a notch.
You're just another notch in my bedpost.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 2
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 2

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

An indentation.
A V-shaped cut.
Such a cut, used for keeping a record.

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In context

Your accent is top notch!
Can you speak a notch louder, please?
The notches in that tribe's warrior axe handles stand for killed enemies.

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Question 1 · Quick check

He carved a small blank in the wood to remember the exact length.

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If this Coin pass, no Man that lives, Shall dun for Past Debauches; Zounds, Landlords, send but in your Wifes, We’ll scow’r off all their Notches.
c. 1720, “The Turnep Ground [A broadside song with music]”, in John S. Farmer, editor, Merry Songs and Ballads prior to the year A. D. 1800 (National Ballad and Song), volume 1, p...
He forced his prick between her reluctant lips, all slimy and soiled as it was from the previous enculade, then producing an enormous dildoe, nearly twelve inches long, and big in proportion, he put a little cold cream on it, and presented the head to her notch, trying to force it in. “Ah! No! no! that's so awfully large!” she almost screamed, but the head was partly in, and despite her sobs: and moans of pains, he soon succeeded in passing at least ten inches of it into her distended vagina.
1880, “Lady Pokingham, or They All Do It”, in The Pearl, volume 12
It was some time ere I recovered myself, and then it was through the teasings and ticklings of my lovely tormentors. I had a pallet made on the floor of the cabin from the beds in the staterooms, and putting the lights out, we lay down. I was in the arms of Isabel and soon well repaid her for the pleasure she had given just before. Thrice did I spend into the most secret recesses of her notch the warm and generous fluid which acts so powerfully on women, and then composed myself for sleep.
1880, “La Rose D'Amour”, in The Pearl, volume 16
a better team might also have done more to expose Uruguay’s occasionally brittle defence, but England’s speed of thought and movement in their attacking positions was a good notch or two down from the Italy game.
2014 June 20, Daniel Taylor, “World Cup 2014: Uruguay sink England as Suárez makes his mark”, in guardian.co.uk
Your doctor is one of the nosiest asari I've ever met. And that's saying A LOT. She needs to take it down four or five notches, or I won't be long for this show.
2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Ugh!

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Origin

noun

Recorded since 1577, probably a rebracketing of an otch, from Middle French oche (“notch”), itself from the Old French verb ochier (“to notch”), of uncertain origin, but possibly related to French hocher and English nick (“small cut, notch”).

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noun

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He carved a small blank— in the wood to remember the exact length.

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noun

He carved a small blank in the wood to remember the exact length.