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As long as I'm puling and micturating, I'd like to know if the dictionary entry is motching or (more likely) the uninflected form, motch?
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Game under protest! The esteemed HogmasterŪ made an unsolicited edit of a hyphen [-] into my undersoil. Even though it garnished a vote, it made the def seem archaic and strained...and, so, suspect. topsoil/undersoil  Don't mess with my undersoil! 
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>an unsolicited edit
take it up with Bill Gates.
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>the uninflected form
yes and no:
motch
To eat little, slowly, quietly and secretly; to consume or waste imperceptilbly. Hence, motching, fond of dainties, with the idea of eating in secret. [Also] slow, quiet eating, with the idea of fondness for good living; imperceptible use, with the notion of thriftlessness. Banffshire.
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So where do the Rugby players come in?
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as with most things Rugby, they extended and mulched the meaning slightly..
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take it up with Bill Gates.Bill Gates doesn't use the hyphen, either! 
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>Bill Gates doesn't use the hyphen, either!
perhaps not, but he accepts it, whereas he rejects undersoil. (aenigma suggests 'understand'..)
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Dainties is what you call dead Rugby players?
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underwear, undergarment, underdrawers, underpants, undershorts, undershirt, underneath, underlie, underrun, underline, undercoating, undergrowth, underpass, underscore, undercut, undercurrent, underfoot, underclass, undershrub, etc, etc, etc... undersoil! Hyphenless all!  does hypenless have a hypen?...hypen-less? 'Sides...it's what the author of the definition wants and submits...it's all part of the specificity of the strategy...no changes were ever allowed without consulting the submitter of the definiton...protest!protest!protest!  for all the good it'll do meTherefore, I hereby submit that all tallies for this round can only be reagarded as an underhanded underscore!
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