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Your word for today is: cwtch, n.
cwtch, n.
Pronunciation: Brit. /kʊtʃ/, U.S. /kʊtʃ/, Welsh English /kʊtʃ/
Forms: 18 cooch Eng. regional (Gloucestershire), 19- cootch, 19- cwch, 19- cwtch, 19- cwtsh.
Etymology:App. orig. < Welsh cwts, cwtsh couch, resting place, recess (15th cent.), (regional (south.)) cuddle, hug (20th cent. or earlier) < couch n.1
In sense 2 perh. independently < cwtch v.
now Welsh English.
1. A cupboard or cubby-hole, esp. used as a hiding place.
1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester 27Cooch and corner, nook and cranny.
1973 M. Stephens Exiles All 25We huddled under the cwtsh, making Beasts against the candle's light.
1983 K. Gooding Rainbow Trail vi. 63A cwtch is a hiding place.
1985 J. Edwards Talk Tidy 17The coal cwtch or the cwtch under the stairs.
1992 Times (Nexis) 28 Feb.,And our house like most of the others had a cwch under the stairs, which was the cupboard.
2004 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 6 Aug. 15They assured us if the atom bomb dropped, we'd have three whole minutes (or was it four?) to put brown paper over the windows, retreat to the cwtch under the stairs, and stay cwtched for three or four weeks.
2. A cuddle; a hug. Cf. cwtch v.2.
1992 Times 28 Feb. ‘Come and have a cwch,’ (rhymes with butch) mothers say to their children.
2000 N. Griffiths Grits (2001) 403There's tears in her eyes again so a give her a cwtch-a great big one and bollox to embarrassment.
2005 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 22 June 11Utter the immortal words, ‘Come 'ere and 'ave a cwtch then,’ and hope that your recipient does not turn and flee.
cwtch, n.
Pronunciation: Brit. /kʊtʃ/, U.S. /kʊtʃ/, Welsh English /kʊtʃ/
Forms: 18 cooch Eng. regional (Gloucestershire), 19- cootch, 19- cwch, 19- cwtch, 19- cwtsh.
Etymology:App. orig. < Welsh cwts, cwtsh couch, resting place, recess (15th cent.), (regional (south.)) cuddle, hug (20th cent. or earlier) < couch n.1
In sense 2 perh. independently < cwtch v.
now Welsh English.
1. A cupboard or cubby-hole, esp. used as a hiding place.
1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester 27Cooch and corner, nook and cranny.
1973 M. Stephens Exiles All 25We huddled under the cwtsh, making Beasts against the candle's light.
1983 K. Gooding Rainbow Trail vi. 63A cwtch is a hiding place.
1985 J. Edwards Talk Tidy 17The coal cwtch or the cwtch under the stairs.
1992 Times (Nexis) 28 Feb.,And our house like most of the others had a cwch under the stairs, which was the cupboard.
2004 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 6 Aug. 15They assured us if the atom bomb dropped, we'd have three whole minutes (or was it four?) to put brown paper over the windows, retreat to the cwtch under the stairs, and stay cwtched for three or four weeks.
2. A cuddle; a hug. Cf. cwtch v.2.
1992 Times 28 Feb. ‘Come and have a cwch,’ (rhymes with butch) mothers say to their children.
2000 N. Griffiths Grits (2001) 403There's tears in her eyes again so a give her a cwtch-a great big one and bollox to embarrassment.
2005 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 22 June 11Utter the immortal words, ‘Come 'ere and 'ave a cwtch then,’ and hope that your recipient does not turn and flee.