"Nautch house"/"notch house"

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>Natch, this still doesn't rule out American notch-->nautch, or
>conflation of the two. I'll make a note to look into this and to pass
>it on to Jon Lighter.

Conflation and coincidence are possibilities, but they seem a priori
unlikely here for three reasons: (1) Occam's razor; (2) "notch" = "vagina"
being _unattested_ in the US (per HDAS); (3) rarity or absence [AFAIK] of
analogous parallel derivations such as *"pussy girl", *"cunny house".

-- Doug Wilson