English Dictionary

rootch

動詞

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Alternative form of rutch (“slide”) / Alternative form of rutch (“squirm, move around”) / (US, informal, especially Pennsylvania) To root or rummage around (in search of something).

日本語の意味

滑る（滑りながら移動する） / もぞもぞ動く（体が蠢くように動く） / あちこちをあさる（何かを探すために物や場所をくまなく探す）

He began to rootch down the icy hill, laughing as he went.

彼は笑いながら氷の斜面を滑り始めた。

意味（1）

Alternative form of rutch (“slide”)

Do you shuss or rootch here? asks the patient. We rootch here, says the chief operating room nurse. The patient rootched herself over on to the operating table. Patient says to nurse, You must make sure that I'm asleep before they operate.

意味（2）

Alternative form of rutch (“squirm, move around”)

You must fight it all ofer the world. You must fight it right here, in your home. Your own Ku Klux Klan — He broke off, his face working so that he could not continue. The Marine looked down at his fingers, rootched on the seat in discomfort.

意味（3）

(US, informal, especially Pennsylvania) To root or rummage around (in search of something).

Our model house-keeper minded closely her own business, never moving about or rootching around in what did not concern her. She was an other-guess character — an other-guess sort of person, as Goldsmith would have said.

rootches （ present singular third-person ）

rootching （ participle present ）

rootched （ participle past ）

rootched （ past ）