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

True bravery iz very eazy tew detekt, for it iz az mutch a part and parcel of a man’s every day life az hiz clothes iz.

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

Love is a natral pashion ov the heart, while friendship iz a necessary one, and awl hearts, however mutch they love, reserve a sly corner for what they call friendship.

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