glutch

English

Etymology

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

Verb

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

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

Noun

glutch (plural glutches)

  1. (Britain, dialect) A mouthful.
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