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

If a man haz got too much snaik in him, he iz liable tew overdo things, and if he haz got too mutch duv in him, he aint apt tew cook things enuff.

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

This natrality ov hiz haz bin immitated so mutch since, that the original idee iz all wore out.

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