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glutch

glutch verb: to swallow.

Verb

glutch (third-person singular simple present glutches, present participle glutching, simple past and past participle glutched)

  1. (UK, dialectal) To swallow.
    • And now Robert Creedle will be nailed up in parish boards 'a b'lieve; and noboby will glutch down a sigh for he!1887, Thomas Hardy, chapter 43, in The Woodlanders

Noun

glutch (plural glutches)

  1. (UK, dialectal) A mouthful.

Forms of glutch

Verb
third-person singular presentglutches
present participleglutching
past participleglutched
pastglutched
Noun
pluralglutches

Origin of glutch

From Middle English glucchen, a variant of gulchen (“to drink greedily”). Doublet of gulch.

Questions about glutch

What does glutch mean?
Glutch means to swallow.
What part of speech is glutch?
Glutch can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of glutch?
The past tense of glutch is glutched.

Words near glutch in the dictionary

  1. glutathionylations
  2. glutathionylspermidine
  3. glutathioselenol
  4. glutaurine
  5. glutazine
  6. glutch
  7. glutched
  8. glutches
  9. glutching
  10. glute
  11. glute bridge

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