mutch

[muhch]

noun

British Dialect.

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

mutch

¹

/ mʌtʃ /

verb

1. (tr) to cadge; beg

2. (intr) another word for mitch

mutch

²

/ mʌtʃ /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of mutch¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of mutch¹

C15: from Middle Dutch mutse cap, from Medieval Latin almucia _almuce

Example Sentences

Greater Manchester South senior coroner Alison Mutch noted that James Boland, 38, started taking the drug as he believed it to be "less harmful" than Class A drugs.

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Fergus Mutch, former SNP head of communications, said the “tactical genius” of Salmond lay in his ability to get the most of the people around him.

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Co-lead author, and fellow doctoral student, Morgan Mutch used a drug to block the proteasome from degrading misfolded rhodopsin and observed that this negated the beneficial effect of ZIP7.

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"I was very surprised, and then excited, when I saw that increasing ZIP7 expression almost completely prevented the buildup of those ubiquitin-tagged proteins," Mutch said.

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Mutch determined that ZIP7 was critical in supplying zinc to Rpn11, enabling it to trim the tags that label defective proteins so that they fit into the structure that actually breaks them down.

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