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Quotation dates: 1804
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†HOTCHIE, n. An oatmeal pudding or dumpling. Cf. Hodgel.Abd. 1804 W. Tarras Poems 72:
The hotchie reams, the girdle steams, An' litt'lans rin clean doited.