tach

See also: Tach, tách, and tạch

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of tachometer

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tæk/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -æk

Noun

tach (plural tachs)

  1. (informal) Clipping of tachometer.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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.

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Noun

tach (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, colloquial) Tachycardia.
    wide-complex tach
    V-tach
Derived terms

Anagrams

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Noun

tach f

  1. (Luserna) roof

Declension

References

Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Noun

tach (uncountable)

  1. touchwood, tinder
Alternative forms

References

Etymology 2

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

Noun

tach (plural taches)

  1. characteristic
  2. disfigurement, blemish
  3. symbol, sign
Alternative forms
Descendants
  • English: tache, tatch (stain)
  • Scots: tache
  • ? English: tetchy

References

Etymology 3

Verb

tach (third-person singular simple present tacheth, present participle tachinge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle taughtaccel-form=1//3|s|past|ind)

  1. alternative form of techen

Muong

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tac⁷/

Verb

tach

  1. (Mường Bi) to place; to put

References

  • Nguyễn Văn Khang, Bùi Chỉ, Hoàng Văn Hành (2002) Từ điển Mường - Việt (Muong - Vietnamese dictionary)[2], Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Văn hoá Dân tộc Hà Nội.