glutch

English

Etymology

From Middle English glucchen, a variant of gulchen (“to drink greedily”). Doublet of gulch.

Verb

glutch (third-person singular simple present glutches, present participle glutching, simple past and past participle glutched)

  1. (Britain, dialectal) To swallow.
    1887, "And now Robert Creedle will be nailed up in parish boards 'a b'lieve; and noboby will glutch down a sigh for he!" — Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, Chapter 43

Noun

glutch (plural glutches)

  1. (Britain, dialectal) A mouthful.
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