sitch

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English sich, siche, from Old English sīċ (“a watercourse; sike”), from Proto-Germanic *sīką (“slow flowing water; a trickle”).

Alternative forms

  • sytch, sitche, sytch (obsolete)
  • sich, siche (dialectal)

Noun

sitch (plural sitches)

  1. (now chiefly dialectal) A brook; ditch; gutter; drain; ravine

Etymology 2

Shortening of situation, with phonetic respelling.

Noun

sitch (plural sitches)

  1. (slang) situation
    • 2005, Lois H. Gresh & Robert E. Weinberg, The science of supervillains, John Wiley and Sons, page 1:
      So here's the sitch: Bruce Banner and Betty Ross Talbot are falling from roughly eight miles high.
    • 2007, George Bennett Fain, Pandora's Box, Lulu.com, page 159:
      Valeska had insisted 'she' stay, sleep where it was definitely safe. Just 'til the sitch could be settled.
    • 2008, Editors of TEEN magazine, Teen Uncover the Real You: A Quiz Book, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., page 2:
      Maybe one is more introspective and the other is more outgoing. Whatever the sitch, you two balance each other out.

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