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- Dictionaryganch/ɡɑːn(t)ʃ/
noun
- 1. a foolish, awkward, or clumsy person: informal Northern Irish "I don't know what she sees in that big ganch"
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the spiked or hooked apparatus used to impale a criminal. 2. an injury inflicted by the tusk of a boar. verb (transitive) 3. to impale (a person) on spikes or hooks as a form of punishment. 4. (of a boar) to injure (a person or another animal) with the tusk.
The meaning of GANCH is to execute or kill by impaling on stakes or hooks. How to use ganch in a sentence.
The earliest known use of the noun ganch is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for ganch is from around 1625–6, in the writing of Samuel Purchas, geographical editor and compiler and Church of England clergyman. It is also recorded as a verb from the early 1600s.
The word "ganch" is commonly used in everyday conversation in Northern Ireland. It can be used to describe someone who is complaining excessively, or to describe the act of complaining itself. For example, "stop your ganching" could be used to tell someone to stop complaining.
1. (Historical Terms) the spiked or hooked apparatus used to impale a criminal. 2. an injury inflicted by the tusk of a boar. vb (tr) 3. (Historical Terms) to impale (a person) on spikes or hooks as a form of punishment. 4. (of a boar) to injure (a person or another animal) with the tusk.
Sep 27, 2024 · ganch (third-person singular simple present ganches, present participle ganching, simple past and past participle ganched) To drop from a high place on sharp stakes or hooks as a punishment.
There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb ganch. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. This word is now obsolete. It is last recorded around the late 1700s.
