Add to ORKGgatchRhymes _patch_. Verb intransitive. Means to boast. I do not know if there is an abstract noun form it, denoting the action of gatching. I think this word is of origin in, and is only to be heard in, St. John's. Cheif Justice R.S.Furlong first told me of it, about eight months ago. Then, during his speech at the Liberal Election Meeting in St. John's last fall, I heard Premier Smallwood, a St. John's-bred man, use it, when describing some Liberal blessing: he said, "However, it's nothing we Liberals want to gatch about..."DNE-citUsed I and SupUsed I and Sup1Used