Noun: roach
| Singular | roach |
| Plural | roaches; roach |
Sample Sentences
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In his half hour of free time between brooms it was Willie's custom to smoke his lunch in an alleyway. He'd take just half a roach, only enough to make him feel a new day was starting, no more no less. [1957, Alfred Maund, The Big Boxcar, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 106:]
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Last toke is the yellowing fabric of the roach, containing the stuff that is less than tobacco. [2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 292:]
Nouns inflected like roach
gallowglass,
secesh,
icefish,
ghostfish,
neon fish,
New English,
combfish,
zebrafish,
walking catfish,
rose fish,
granofels,
elephant trunkfish,
medusafish,
Mississippi catfish,
boxfish,
weeverfish,
greenfish,
stone fish,
stone-fish,
bannerfish, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English roche, from Old French roche, from Middle Low German roche, ruche (“ray (fish)”), from Old Saxon *rūh, possibly from Proto-Germanic *rūhaz (“rough”).
2. Cognate with Old English ruhha ("a ray"; > Middle English rouhe, rohȝe), German Rochen (“ray (fish)”). See: Middle English Nouns '
roche', Old English Nouns '
ruhha', Middle English Nouns '
rouhe', German Nouns '
Rochen'.
Verbs referencing "roach"
German Nouns
Rochen, Irish Nouns
róiste.