mutch

American  

[muhch] / mʌtʃ /

noun

British Dialect.

1. a close-fitting linen or muslin cap, as worn by elderly women or babies.

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mutch ¹ British  

/ mʌtʃ /

verb

1. (tr) to cadge; beg

2. (intr) another word for mitch

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mutch ² British  

/ mʌtʃ /

noun

1. a close-fitting linen cap formerly worn by women and children in Scotland

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Etymology

Origin of mutch

1425–75; late Middle English (dial.) much < Middle Dutch mutse; cognate with German Mütze cap. See amice ²

Example Sentences

And last: a loozer, i; for inke i yearne. badde joakes i lov; goode tayste i spurne. my entrys have sutch witte and snappe, weeke inne, weeke oute, i winne mutch crappe.

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2017

I typed a sentence suggested by one of my Twitter followers: "how mutch wood ewe pay 4 a pear of shews."

From The Guardian • Jun. 9, 2014

Digges knew the eleventh book of the poem off by heart ‘& takes mutch delight to repeate it often’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

He iz a fleshy-minded sinner, and hiz blandness iz too mutch for the quaintness ov the goose, the melankolly reserve ov the turkey, or the pompous rhetorick ov the rooster.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.

The love that a man gains by flattery, is worth just about az mutch az the flattery is.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.