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

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Example Sentences

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mutch

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

If a man iz very anxious tew kultivate a good opinyun ov human natur, he mustn’t know too mutch ov it.

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

It iz comparitively eazy tew repent ov the sins that we hav committed, but tew repent ov thoze which we intend to commit, is asking tew mutch ov enny man, now days.

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

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