tach

Clipping of tachometer

• IPA^(key): /tæk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æk

tach (plural tachs)

1. (informal) Clipping of tachometer.

Backslang for hat (with /tʃ/ substituted for the /h/).

• IPA^(key): /tæt͡ʃ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ætʃ

tach (plural taches)

1. (obsolete, costermongers) A hat.
   • c. 1864, Alfred Peck Stevens, “The Chickaleary Cove”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris‎^[1], published 1896, page 161:

     I have a rorty gal, also a knowing pal, / And merrily together we jog on, / I doesn't care a flatch, as long as I've a tach, / Some pannum for my chest, and a tog on.

• IPA^(key): /tæk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æk

tach (uncountable)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Tachycardia.

   wide-complex tach

   V-tach

• v-tach

• ACTH, CHAT, Cath, cath, cath., chat

• dach (Sette Comuni)

From Middle High German dach, from Old High German dah, from Proto-Germanic *þaką (“roof, cover”). Cognate with German Dach, English thack.

tach f

1. (Luserna) roof

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Unknown. Perhaps related to trasch or Modern English tatch (“to set grass on fire”).

tach (uncountable)

1. touchwood, tinder

• tache, tasch, tasche, tasshe

• “tach(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old French tache (“stain, spot”), of uncertain origin; perhaps a native derivation, or borrowed from Gothic.

tach (plural taches)

1. characteristic
2. disfigurement, blemish
3. symbol, sign

• tacche, tachche, tatche, tak, tech, teche, tecche, tetche

• English: tache, tatch (“stain”)
• Scots: tache
• ⇒? English: tetchy

• “tach(e, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

tach (third-person singular simple present tacheth, present participle tachinge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle taught)

1. Alternative form of techen

From Proto-Vietic *dac ~ tac. Cognate with Vietnamese đặt.

• IPA^(key): /tac⁷/

tach

1. (Mường Bi) to place; to put

• Nguyễn Văn Khang, Bùi Chỉ, Hoàng Văn Hành (2002) Từ điển Mường - Việt (Muong - Vietnamese dictionary), Nhà xuất bản Văn hoá Dân tộc Hà Nội