What does TOUCH mean? The word TOUCH is a noun and also a verb. It has several meanings, not just as a noun, but as a verb as well.
The following is just a few meanings of TOUCH as a verb listed in dictionary.com:
1. To cause or permit a part of the body, especially the hand or fingers, to come in contact with so as to feel: reached out and touched the smooth stone.
2. To bring (one thing) into light contact with something else: grounded the radio by touching a wire to it.
3. To press or push lightly; tap: touched 19 on the phone to get room service.
4. To lay hands on in violence: I never touched him!
5. To eat or drink; taste: She didn’t touch her food.
6. To disturb or move by handling: Just don’t touch anything in the room!
7. To affect the emotions of; move to tender response: an appeal that touched us deeply.
TOUCH is also the name of the tailoring shop my parents used to own in a small town in the Philippines. The shop was the front room of our house, which was at a corner of a busy intersection – a good spot for a business like ours. At the front of the shop was a big glass-covered window box where my parents displayed pants and shirts. There was a sign that said TOUCH Tailoring. Inside the shop was a big wooden table my father used as a cutting table. There were three sewing machines, which my mother and a couple hired people used to sew the pants and polo shirts. My parents ran a successful tailor shop. People knew us because we were the only tailor shop in town. They actually referred to my parents as Mr. and Mrs. Touch.
August 8, 2006 at 9:35 pm
[...] My parents garnered a lot of friends in our small town. People came to the shop, The TOUCH Tailoring, and asked my father, “Mr. TOUCH, would you please give us the honor of being the godfather of my child?” My father would say, “Why, sure, it would be my pleasure.” For it would be not proper to decline that offer. My parents and the other parents then became magkumpare (male) and magkumare (female). They became the best of friends, almost like family members. They went to each other’s house and it was the custom to serve your kumpare a few drinks of beer, whiskey, or rum. [...]