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单词 cwtch
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cwtchn.

Brit. /kʊtʃ/, U.S. /kʊtʃ/, Welsh English /kʊtʃ/
Forms: 1800s cooch (English regional (Gloucestershire)), 1900s– cootch, 1900s– cwch, 1900s– cwtch, 1900s– cwtsh.
Origin: Apparently a borrowing from Welsh. Etymon: Welsh cwts.
Etymology: Apparently originally < Welsh cwts, cwtsh couch, resting place, recess (15th cent.), (regional (south.)) cuddle, hug (20th cent. or earlier) < couch n.1In sense 2 perhaps independently < cwtch v.
now Welsh English.
1. A cupboard or cubby-hole, esp. used as a hiding place.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [noun]
hidelsc975
hidela1300
bushc1330
hulkc1330
derna1340
tapissinga1340
coverta1375
hiding1382
loting-placea1398
cover14..
hiding placec1440
mewa1450
closetc1450
hole1483
cure1502
secret1530
shrouding place1571
ivy-bush1576
coney burrowa1586
hidlings1597
foxhole1606
shrouding corner1610
recess1611
subterfuge1616
latibule1623
latebra1626
blind1646
privacy1648
hide1649
retreat1697
rathole1770
hidey-hole1817
tod hole1846
hulster1880
hideout1885
cwtch1890
castle1898
lurk1906
stash1927
hideaway1930
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > cupboard or cabinet > [noun]
aumbry1356
shelfc1440
armoryc1485
cupboard1530
armoire1571
amberc1625
tabern1657
dark-closet1726
almirah1788
cwtch1890
bahuta1916
muurkas1949
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > small room
parrockOE
cellc1300
cabin1362
parclosea1470
camerelle?c1475
crib1600
narrow cell1636
pigeonhole1703
closet1728
box1773
cuddy1793
cubby-hole1842
roomlet1855
cubby1868
cubby-house1880
cwtch1890
cellule1894
1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester 27 Cooch and corner, nook and cranny.
1973 M. Stephens Exiles All 25 We huddled under the cwtsh, making Beasts against the candle's light.
1983 K. Gooding Rainbow Trail vi. 63 A cwtch is a hiding place.
1985 J. Edwards Talk Tidy 17 The coal cwtch or the cwtch under the stairs.
1992 Times (Nexis) 28 Feb. And our house like most of the others had a cwch under the stairs, which was the cupboard.
2004 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 6 Aug. 15 They assured us if the atom bomb dropped, we'd have three whole minutes (or was it four?) to put brown paper over the windows, retreat to the cwtch under the stairs, and stay cwtched for three or four weeks.
2. A cuddle; a hug. Cf. cwtch v. 2.
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the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [noun]
beclipping1340
complexion1493
clipa1586
brace1589
twine1602
fold1609
grasp1609
claspa1616
abrazoa1626
colla1627
cling1633
hug1659
folding1713
squeeze1790
cuddle1825
bear squeeze1845
bear hug1870
clinch1901
bosie1952
side hug1984
cwtch1992
bro hug2000
1992 Times 28 Feb. (Life & Times section) 4/6 ‘Come and have a cwch,’ (rhymes with butch) mothers say to their children.
2000 N. Griffiths Grits (2001) 403 There's tears in her eyes again so a give her a cwtch—a great big one and bollox to embarrassment.
2005 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 22 June 11 Utter the immortal words, ‘Come 'ere and 'ave a cwtch then,’ and hope that your recipient does not turn and flee.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

cwtchv.

Brit. /kʊtʃ/, U.S. /kʊtʃ/, Welsh English /kʊtʃ/
Forms: 1900s– cwch, 1900s– cwtch, 1900s– cwtsh.
Origin: A borrowing from Welsh. Etymon: Welsh cwtsio.
Etymology: < Welsh cwtsio to couch, lie low, cause to lie down, hide (15th–16th cent.), (regional (south.)) to cuddle (20th cent.) < either cwts cwtch n. or couch v.1 Compare earlier cwtch n.
Welsh English.
1. intransitive. To lie down. Also with down.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of lying down or reclining > lie down or recline [verb (intransitive)]
leanc950
resteOE
liec1000
to be laidc1175
layc1300
to lie along1530
recline1578
to horizontalize it1843
recumb1906
cwtch1921
1921 J. A. Bradney in Archæologia Cambrensis 7th Ser. 1 146 Used only in English; a man orders his dog to go cwtsh in the corner.
1992 Times (Nexis) 28 Feb. You can also say, ‘cwch down’ as in ‘cwch down and sleep now’.
2001 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 25 Sept. 13 Dogs are sometimes told to ‘go and cwtch’.
2. transitive. To hug or cuddle (a person). Also intransitive with up.
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the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [verb (transitive)]
clipc950
freeOE
beclipc1000
windc1175
fang?c1200
yokec1275
umgripea1300
to take in (also into, on) one's armsc1300
umbefold14..
collc1320
lapc1350
bracec1375
embracec1386
clapa1400
folda1400
halsea1400
umbeclapa1400
accollc1400
fathomc1400
halchc1400
haspc1400
hoderc1440
plighta1450
plet?a1500
cuddlec1520
complect1523
umbfoldc1540
clasp1549
culla1564
cully1576
huggle1583
embosom1590
wrap1594
collya1600
cling1607
bosom1608
grasp1609
comply1648
huddlea1650
smuggle1679
inarm1713
snuggle1775
cwtch1965
1965 E. Taylor Elizabeth Taylor vi. 103 He [sc. Richard Burton] was so vulnerable and sweet and shaky..that with my heart I cwtched him—that's Welsh for hug.
1985 J. Edwards Talk Tidy 17Cwtch up to your mam’. A child nursed ‘Welsh-fashion’ is well and truly being ‘cwtched’.
1996 Guardian (Nexis) 28 Oct. 13 Cwtch up to me, cariad (give us a hug, darlin').
2003 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 21 Aug. 3 The newborn slept undisturbed as her mother gently kissed her face and dad ‘cwtched’ her on his shoulder.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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