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▪ I. dunch, v. chiefly dial.|dʌnʃ|
Also dunsh.
[Derivation unknown.
Mätzner suggests connexion with Icel. dunka to resound, give a hollow sound, Sw. dunka, Da. dunke to beat, knock, thump, throb; but these are modern forms, having no historical connexion with English.]
trans. To strike or push with a short rapid blow, now esp. to jog with the elbow.
a1240Wohunge in Cott. Hom. 283 Þat tai þe dunchen and þrasten þe forðward swiðe toward ti dom. c1440Promp. Parv. 135/1 Dunchyn, or bunchyn, tundo. 1789D. Davidson Seasons 49 (Jam.) The unco brute much dunching dried Frae twa-year-alls and stirks. 1802R. Anderson Cumberld. Ball. 25 When Trummel cleek'd her on his knee, She dunch'd and punch'd, cried, ‘fuil, let be!’ 1827Ann. Reg. 198, I felt his skull had been dunched in. 1887W. G. Simpson Art Golf 132 A bad ball, which can..be dunched along the ground a short distance with a brassy. Mod. Sc. Do not dunch me while I am writing. 1930W. S. Maugham Cakes & Ale ii. 23 Verbs that you only know the meaning of if you live in the right set (like ‘dunch’). 1963Times 9 Jan. 4/3 It [sc. mud] catches one in the eye when a [golf] shot is ‘dunched’.
▪ II. dunch, n. Sc. and north. dial.
[f. prec. vb.]
A jog, a push with the elbow, a smart shock.
c1440Promp. Parv. 135/1 Dunche, or lonche..sonitus, stepitus..bombus. c1490Ibid. (MS. K.) Dvnche (P. dunchinge), tuncio, percussio. 1811Aiton Agric. Ayrsh. Gloss. 691 Dunch, a smart push. 1886Stevenson Kidnapped xiii. (1888) 118 She..struck the reef with such a dunch as threw us all flat upon the deck.
▪ III. dunch, a. Obs. exc. dial.
[Derivation uncertain: cf. dunny a.2]
Dull or inert in the senses, or in composition.
1. Deaf. dunch down: see quot. 1578.
1574Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. (1577) 75, I haue spoken with Perianes..and as he was deafe and moste dunch, I cried out more in speaking vnto him, than I do vse in preaching. 1578Lyte Dodoens iv. liii. 513 This herbe is called..in Latine Typha..in Englishe..Dunche downe, bycause the downe will cause one to be deafe, if it happen to fall into the eares. 1787Grose Provinc. Gloss., Dunch, deaf. W. 1888Berkshire Gloss., Dunch, deaf.
2. Blind.
16..Clown's Journey to London (Somerset dial.) MS. Ashmole 36 lf. 112 What with the zmoke and what with the criez, I waz amozt blind and dunch in my eyes. 1888Berkshire Gloss., Dunch passage, a cul de sac; the term ‘blind passage’ is sometimes used in this sense.
3. Heavy or doughy, as bread.
1842Akerman Wiltsh. Gloss., Dunch-dumpling, a hard dumpling, made of flour and water. 1879Jefferies Wild Life in S.C. 129 Priding herself that [the batch of bread] is never ‘dunch’ or heavy. [Hence prob., in midland dialects, dunch n., dumpling.]
4. Stupid, slow of comprehension; dull.
1845Ainsworth's Mag. VII. 368 The boy is either so dunch..or he is so sharp that you can scarcely trust him out of your sight. 1889A. Gissing Both of this Parish I. xv. 324 William Stretch be a trifle dunch in some of his faculties. 1927M. Sadleir Trollope 169 The Autobiography contains a number of judgments on novels, and..they are ‘dunch’ and unconvincing. |