hotch
To move irregularly up and down.
To swarm (with).
What if I went up? Imagine nobody had done it before. It would be hotching with balls and stuff, hundreds of things.
Where it comes from
From Anglo-Norman hocher, Middle French hocher, from a Germanic source (compare Dutch hutsen, hossen, German hotzen).
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry hotch (CC BY-SA 4.0).