natch

• IPA^(key): /næt͡ʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ætʃ

Clipping of naturally, originally US.

natch (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) Naturally; of course.

   The Queen was seen wearing a hat when she visited Ascot, natch.

   • 1960 May 16, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 146:

     [Bug:] You can parry and thrust wittily at a press conference?
     [Dog:] Natch.

   • 2025 August 4, Mike Isaac, “A.I. Has Ushered in Silicon Valley’s ‘Hard Tech’ Era”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 August 2025:

     Engineers held morning meetings sitting in rainbow-colored beanbags, took lunch gratis at the corporate sushi bar and unwound in the afternoon with craft brews from the office keg (nitrogen chilled, natch).

From Old French nache, Late Latin natica, from Latin natis (“the rump, buttocks”). Compare aitchbone.

natch (plural natches)

1. The rump of beef, especially the lower and back part of the rump.

natch (plural natches)

1. (dialect) A notch.

• “natch adv.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

• Chant, chant