Toches

Pronunciation

IPA: /ËˆtÉ’xÉ™s/ , IPA: /ËˆtÊŠxÉ™s/

Note: Many English speakers are uncomfortable with the phoneme and commonly replace it here with .

Alternative forms

Origin

From Yiddish ×ªÖ¼×—×ª (tokhes, "buttocks"), in turn from Hebrew ×ª×—×ª (tÃ¡kat, "buttocks").

Full definition of toches

Noun

toches

(plural tocheses)

(slang, chiefly US) The buttocks, rear end, butt.

2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage 2007, p. 66:he sat on the top of mountains and read Wordsworth and Lenin aloud to extravagantly beautiful shikseh waitresses with golden pigtails down to their tocheses (no one ever said arse in this gathering, it was always toches) who repaid him with free GlÃ¼hwein and he wasn't prepared to tell me what else.