gitch
nounRegionalPrairies
A Canadian English slang term. Browse all Canadian slang.
What it means
Underwear, usually men's. Prairie vocabulary; gonch is the Alberta and British Columbia variant.
In use
Wandering round the house in his gitch.
Pack some clean gitch.
Where it comes from
Likely from Ukrainian or Polish, reflecting the Central and Eastern European settlement of the Prairie provinces — one of the clearest traces of that migration in Canadian English.
Other forms
- Similar terms:
- gonch, ginch