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utchy

/ˈʌt͡ʃɪ/

utchy pronoun: I.

Pronoun

utchy

  1. (West-Country, obsolete, personal, Somerset) I
    • What shall utchy do?
    • [It is, manifestly, a corrupt pronunciation of Ich, or Ichè, pronounced as two syllables, the Anglo-Saxon word for I. What shall utchy do? What shall I do. I think Chaucer sometimes uses iche as a dissyllable; […]]1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England: Particularly Somersetshire, page 69

Adjective

utchy (not comparable)

  1. (dialectal) Chilly, parky.

Forms of utchy

alternative formutch

Origin of utchy

A modification of utch, ich, iche, from Middle English ich (“I”, pronoun), from Old English iċ (“I”, pronoun), from Proto-Germanic *ik, *ek (“I”, pronoun), from Proto-Indo-European *eǵh₂óm (“I”). Doublet of che. Recorded in use in the area around Yeovil in southern Somerset.

Unknown.

Questions about utchy

What does utchy mean?
Utchy means I.
What part of speech is utchy?
Utchy can be a pronoun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce utchy?
Utchy is pronounced /ˈʌt͡ʃɪ/.

Words near utchy in the dictionary

  1. UTC
  2. UTC offset
  3. UTC offsets
  4. utch
  5. utchari
  6. utchy
  7. UTCI
  8. utd
  9. UTDR
  10. ute
  11. Ute Park

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