/huːt͡ʃ/
OriginAbbreviation of hoochinoo, name of a specific liquor, from Tlingit Xutsnoowú Ḵwáan, the group that produced it, from Hutsnuwu (“grizzly bear fort”), the name of the village on Admiralty Island in which they lived. From Tlingit xóots (“grizzly bear”).
- Canada, US, countable, informal, uncountableAn alcoholic beverage, especially an inferior or illicit one and especially liquor such as whisky.
“he was so grief-stricken that he literally drowned his sorrow in “hootch-i-noo,” the native equivalent of whiskey. […] Had he not been so sad he would not have drunk the “hootch,” and if he had not dr”
“Bring on the free hooch!”
- A thatched hut, CHU, or any simple dwelling.
Formshooches(plural) · hootch(alternative)