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cwtsh

cwtsh is the alternative spelling 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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Forms of cwtsh

Noun
pluralcwtshes
Verb
third-person singular presentcwtshes
present participlecwtshing
past participlecwtshed
pastcwtshed

Questions about cwtsh

What is cwtsh the alternative spelling of?
Cwtsh is the alternative spelling of cwtch.

Words near cwtsh in the dictionary

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

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