"zatch" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: zatches [plural]
Etymology: Coined by James Thurber in the 13 Clocks (1950) Head templates: {{en-noun}} zatch (plural zatches)
  1. The stomach. Wikipedia link: the 13 Clocks
    Sense id: en-zatch-en-noun-zzBwFViv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "Coined by James Thurber in the 13 Clocks (1950)",
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          "ref": "1950, James Thurber, The 13 Clocks",
          "text": "I wonder if he would order me to cause a fall of purple snow . . .or make a table out of sawdust . . . or merely slit me from my guggle to my zatch and say to Saralinda \"There he lies, your latest fool, a nameless minstrel. […]\"",
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          "ref": "1993, Bevan Amberhill, The Bloody Man, page 18",
          "text": "Worse. I shall have to rip him from his guggle to his zatch.",
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        {
          "ref": "2000, William Kelley, The Tyree Legend, page 117",
          "text": "Here came this goddamned circumbendibus wrench of a gust that ripped his royals, burst his boom, raped his lock, ruptured his rudder, bent his beam, blew his nose, stripped his poses, muzzled his mizzen, broached his bilge, guggled his zatch, stemmed his stern, ticked his tack, and drove him and his goddamned junky praam of a punt straight down by the heelpost into sixty fathoms and nineteen and a half feet of bass-shit and cockleshells!",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Anne Lamott, Crooked Little Heart, page 32",
          "text": "He gave some blood to the lab, and five days later was in surgery, “slit,” as he put it, “from gizzard to zatch”",
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          "text": "Worse. I shall have to rip him from his guggle to his zatch.",
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          "text": "Here came this goddamned circumbendibus wrench of a gust that ripped his royals, burst his boom, raped his lock, ruptured his rudder, bent his beam, blew his nose, stripped his poses, muzzled his mizzen, broached his bilge, guggled his zatch, stemmed his stern, ticked his tack, and drove him and his goddamned junky praam of a punt straight down by the heelpost into sixty fathoms and nineteen and a half feet of bass-shit and cockleshells!",
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