Phrase for a child moving around -- "ritching around"?
--------------------------------------------------
Hire the world's top talent on demand or became one of them at Toptal: https://topt.al/25cXVn
and get $2,000 discount on your first invoice
--------------------------------------------------
Take control of your privacy with Proton's trusted, Swiss-based, secure services.
Choose what you need and safeguard your digital life:
Mail: https://go.getproton.me/SH1CU
VPN: https://go.getproton.me/SH1DI
Password Manager: https://go.getproton.me/SH1DJ
Drive: https://go.getproton.me/SH1CT
Music by Eric Matyas
https://www.soundimage.org
Track title: Puzzle Game 2
--
Chapters
00:00 Phrase For A Child Moving Around -- &Quot;Ritching Around&Quot;?
00:26 Answer 1 Score 0
00:36 Accepted Answer Score 6
01:07 Answer 3 Score 2
01:23 Thank you
--
Full question
https://english.stackexchange.com/questi...
--
Content licensed under CC BY-SA
https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/lice...
--
Tags
#expressions
#avk47
Hire the world's top talent on demand or became one of them at Toptal: https://topt.al/25cXVn
and get $2,000 discount on your first invoice
--------------------------------------------------
Take control of your privacy with Proton's trusted, Swiss-based, secure services.
Choose what you need and safeguard your digital life:
Mail: https://go.getproton.me/SH1CU
VPN: https://go.getproton.me/SH1DI
Password Manager: https://go.getproton.me/SH1DJ
Drive: https://go.getproton.me/SH1CT
Music by Eric Matyas
https://www.soundimage.org
Track title: Puzzle Game 2
--
Chapters
00:00 Phrase For A Child Moving Around -- &Quot;Ritching Around&Quot;?
00:26 Answer 1 Score 0
00:36 Accepted Answer Score 6
01:07 Answer 3 Score 2
01:23 Thank you
--
Full question
https://english.stackexchange.com/questi...
--
Content licensed under CC BY-SA
https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/lice...
--
Tags
#expressions
#avk47
ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 6
I live in PA, and it's a very common word among the PA Dutch (I've picked up a great many strange words and expressions from them.)
It's not quite "ritching"; the first syllable's vowel sound is more like the oo in book. So I would spell it "rootching", but, yes. It is equivalent to squirming:
a change of position that does not entail a change of location -TFD
Synonymous with fidgeting, wiggling, etc.
ANSWER 2
Score 2
Ritching around was used in my family too! By my grandmother whose mom came from Bavaria. German roots maybe? Yes. I found the German word rutsch which can be used to mean stop sliding (rutsching) your bum around.
ANSWER 3
Score 0
never heard of it myself. I would say quit flailing about