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▪ I. cwtch, n. now Welsh English.
Brit. |kʊtʃ|, U.S. |kʊtʃ|, Welsh English |kʊtʃ|
Forms: 18 cooch[Eng. regional (Gloucestershire)], 19– cootch, 19– cwch, 19– cwtch, 19– cwtsh
[Apparently originally > n.1
In sense 2 perhaps independently ‹cwtch v.]
1. A cupboard or cubby-hole, esp. used as a hiding place.
1890J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester 27 Cooch and corner, nook and cranny. 1973M. Stephens Exiles All 25 We huddled under the cwtsh, making Beasts against the candle's light. 1983K. Gooding Rainbow Trail vi. 63 A cwtch is a hiding place. 1985J. Edwards Talk Tidy 17 The coal cwtch or the cwtch under the stairs. 1992Times (Nexis) 28 Feb. And our house like most of the others had a cwch under the stairs, which was the cupboard. 2004Western 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.
1992Times 28 Feb. ‘Come and have a cwch,’ (rhymes with butch) mothers say to their children. 2000N. 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. 2005Western 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.
▪ II. cwtch, v. Welsh English.
Brit. |kʊtʃ|, U.S. |kʊtʃ|, Welsh English |kʊtʃ|
Forms: 19– cwch, 19– cwtch, 19– cwtsh
[‹ Welsh cwtsio to couch, lie low, cause to lie down, hide (15th–16th cent.), (regional (south.)) to cuddle (20th cent.) > n. or couch v.1 Compare earlier cwtch n.]
1. intr. To lie down. Also with down.
1921J. A. Bradney in Archæologia Cambrensis (7th Ser.) 1 146 Used only in English; a man orders his dog to go cwtsh in the corner. 1992Times (Nexis) 28 Feb. You can also say, ‘cwch down’ as in ‘cwch down and sleep now’. 2001Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 25 Sept. 13 Dogs are sometimes told to ‘go and cwtch’.
2. trans. To hug or cuddle (a person). Also intr. with up.
1965E. 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. 1985J. Edwards Talk Tidy 17 ‘Cwtch up to your mam’. A child nursed ‘Welsh-fashion’ is well and truly being ‘cwtched’. 1996Guardian (Nexis) 28 Oct. 13 Cwtch up to me, cariad (give us a hug, darlin'). 2003Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 21 Aug. 3 The newborn slept undisturbed as her mother gently kissed her face and dad ‘cwtched’ her on his shoulder. |