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cwtches

cwtches is the plural of cwtch.

Meaning of cwtch

Noun

cwtch (plural cwtches)

  1. (Wales) A cubbyhole or similar hiding place.
    • In front of the pavement again stretched a flat patch of rusty ground, a sort of little platform in the side of the hill where the sagging drying-lines stood and a chickens' cwtch built of orange-boxes.1944, Glyn Jones, “An Afternoon at Ewa Shad's”, in The Water-Music and Other Stories
  2. (Wales) A hug or cuddle.
    • I am expecting the big man to come round the corner and give me a ‘cwtch’ as he has done beside countless rugby fields.2007 November 18, Ieuan Evans, The Telegraph

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Questions about cwtches

What is cwtches the plural of?
Cwtches is the plural of cwtch.

Words near cwtches in the dictionary

  1. CWS
  2. cwt
  3. cwt.
  4. cwtch
  5. cwtched
  6. cwtches
  7. cwtching
  8. CWTs
  9. cwtsh
  10. cwtshed
  11. cwtshes

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