dunchn.
/dʌn(t)ʃ/, U.S. /dən(t)ʃ/, Scottish English /dʌnʃ/ 1. A loud noise; a bang, a crash. Scottish and English regional (northern) in later use (cf. sense 2c).
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [noun] > loud sound or noise
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Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 135 Dunche [a1475 Winch. dunch], or lonche, sonitus, strepitus.
1956 Burns Chron. & Club Directory 3rd Ser. 5 64 Nae mair we hear the lipper o the water, Only the dunsh o ice-floes scruntin by.
2009 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 11 June a32 The loud dunch had stopped Mrs J and her twenty-something teeny-boppers in their tracks.
2. Chiefly Scottish, English regional (northern), and Irish English (northern) in later use.
a. An act of hitting, beating, or striking someone or something. Cf. earlier dunch v.Now only as preserved in specific meanings in regional use: see senses 2b, 2c.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > delivery of blow
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a1500 Promptorium Parvulorum (King's Cambr.) 135 Dvnche [1499 Pynson dunchinge], tuncio, percussio.
b. A sharp push or shove; spec. (a) a nudge or poke with the elbow; (b) a butt with the head from a cow, sheep, etc.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > [noun] > striking with pushing action > pushing > a push
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1770 Town & Country Mag. Suppl. 704/2 We gave him a dunch on the breast.
1827 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxxiv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 130 Lest Satan, wha is stannin' girnin' ahint our back, gie us a dunge when we're no mindin', and bury us in the brimstone.
1893 J. Crawford Some Bits o' Sc. Verses 36 Billy shied and wheeled roon' wi' a dunch like a ram, Heid ower heels doon the brae gaed Kate Galloway's Tam.
1905 Irish Times 19 Aug. 8/8 When she went to sleep he would give her a ‘dunch’ in the ribs.
1925 C. P. Slater Marget Pow 187 Leeby gave me the maist awfu' dunch wi' her elby.
1988 W. A. D. Riach Galloway Gloss. 14 Dunch, a blow (mainly applied to cattle or sheep running their heads together).
2000 A. Morrison Oor Wee School wis Rare Wee School! 13 Maggie has a gless e'e. The last teacher gied her a dunch, an oot cam' the e'e.
c. A sudden, jolting collision or impact; a blow or injury resulting from such an impact; a bang, a bump.
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the world > movement > impact > [noun] > forcible, heavy, or violent
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1831 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae lix, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 839 Rin yoursel' wi' a dunsh again' the wa'.
1860 A. Whamond James Tacket xxxi He lichted wi' sic a dunsh on the pavement.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xiii. 118 She..struck the reef with such a dunch as threw us all flat upon the deck.
1911 F. E. Crichton Soundless Tide xv A've hit me head some kind o' dunch.
2006 Guardian (Nexis) 8 Feb. (Home section) 11 Ah've a canny ill-fard dunsh.
3. Golf. A shot in which the ball is propelled along or close to the ground, typically only a short distance.Most commonly used of a shot which is mishit, but sometimes, esp. in the early 20th cent., with reference to a shot played deliberately in this way (see dunch shot n. at Compounds).
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1887 W. G. Simpson Art of Golf ii. ii. 71 I was advocating that stiff dunch from the shoulder with arms..rigidly straight, by which many late beginners remove their ball from the tee.
1909 Golf Illustr. 7 May 203 At the short sixth Braid played one of his famous ‘dunches’, the result being a win in 3.
1959 I. Fleming Goldfinger viii. 104 This time it was a dunch. A foot of turf flew up. The ball went ten yards.
1962 Times 26 Mar. 4/6 His opponent's pitch up the bank appeared to be a mixture between a ‘dunch’ and an explosion shot.
2005 G. Wiren in D. J. Trump Trump: Best Golf Advice I ever Received 123 The shot is a flub, a stub, a dunch, a chunk, a disaster.
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dunch shot n. Golf (now rare) a shot in which the ball is propelled a short distance out of a bunker with a forceful punch of the club rather than a full swing.
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1910 B. Darwin Golf Courses Brit. Isles x. 174 No one plays the heavy ‘dunch’ shot out of sand quite so surely as Braid.
1914 Outing Jan. 462/2 Mr. Harold H. Hilton played one of the prettiest ‘dunch shots’ at the 17th hole, after he put his third into the road bunker.
1943 Country Life 18 June 1107/3 As for James Braid, I fancy that many of us would like to experience just for one moment his feeling in playing what his admirers used to call his ‘dunch’ shot with an iron.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
dunchadj.
/dʌn(t)ʃ/, U.S. /dən(t)ʃ/ Chiefly English regional (esp. southern) and Newfoundland in later use.† 3. colloquial. Slow to learn or understand; lacking in intelligence; stupid, dull. Obsolete.
1. † b. Blind; having impaired vision. See also dunch passage adj. at Compounds. Obsolete.In quot. a1692 in a representation of Somerset dialect.
a. Deaf; hard of hearing. Now English regional (southern).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of ear > disordered hearing > [adjective] > deaf
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1569 T. Newton tr. Cicero Scipio Hys Dream in Paradoxa Stoicorum sig. f.iiv This sound so filled their eares that they became therwith dunch & deafe [L. obsurduerunt].
1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 116 I haue spoken with Perianes..& as he was death and most dunch [Sp. sordo y sordissimo], I cried out more in speaking vnto him, then I do vse in preaching.
1752 Covent-Garden Jrnl. 16 July 123/1 He did not believe the Gentleman was dunch, for that he talked very well.
1830 H. Smith Walter Colyton I. i. 5 As blind as a wont, an' as dunch as a pooast.
1853 J. Y. Akerman Wiltshire Tales 81 ‘Ah! Molly,’ said he, ‘ye purtends to be as dunch as a bittle, but I kneows 'e hears ev'ry word I zays.’
1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases Dunch, deaf.
1967 H. Orton & M. F. Wakelin Surv. Eng. Dial. IV. ii. 664 When a man is hard of hearing, we say he is... [Somerset] Dunch..i.e. ‘they can't hear, and they don't wish to.’
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > blind
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a1692 Clown's Journey to London (Ashm. 36) f. 112 What with the zmoke and what with the Criez, I waz a mozt blind and dunch in mine eyez.
1847 R. S. Surtees Hawbuck Grange xii. 248 Some people have a wonderful knack at viewing foxes, and think those desperately ‘dunch’ who don't see them.
2.
a. Heavy, stodgy, doughy. Chiefly used to designate bread that has not risen properly.Originally English regional (southern). In later use Newfoundland.Recorded earliest in dunch dumpling n. at Compounds.
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the world > food and drink > food > consistency of food > [adjective] > stodgy
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the world > food and drink > food > consistency of food > [adjective] > doughy
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [adjective] > light or heavy
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1824 Lit. Magnet 2 154 Sworn enemies alike to Spartan black broth, and Devonshire dunch-dumplings!
1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 129 Priding herself that [the batch of bread] is never ‘dunch’ or heavy.
1933 E. Merrick True North ii. 177 They were living on ‘dunch’ bread and what meat they could get.
1964 E. Dawe in Dict. Newfoundland Eng. (1982) 160/1 I make good bread, though these [loaves] are dunch.
b. Newfoundland. Numbed or cramped from sitting in one position for too long.
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1956 Ontario Libr. Rev. Nov. 226/2 We must not take too long a spell..or we shall probably get dunch or cramped from remaining in one position too long.
1971 L. Harris in Dict. Newfoundland Eng. (1982) 160/1 My leg is dunch from sitting on it.
2017 Packet (Clarenville, Newfoundland) (Electronic ed.) 30 Sept. The only casualty Friday night was my bum went dunch.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective]
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dim-witted1940
pea-brained1942
clueless1943
lobotomized1943
retarded1949
pointy-headed1950
clottish1952
like a stunned mullet1953
silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954
out to lunch1955
pin-brained1958
dozy1959
eejity1964
out of one's tiny mind1965
doofus1967
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twatty1975
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1825 M. Keble Let. 15 Apr. in G. Battiscombe John Keble (1963) iii. 91 I used to ride out and feel so dunch and not have a word to say.
1845 Ainsworth's Mag. 7 368 The boy is either so dunch as to vex your spirit every time you speak to him or give him an order, or he is so sharp that you can scarcely trust him out of your sight.
1889 A. Gissing Both of this Parish I. xv. 324 William Stretch be a trifle dunch in some of his faculties.
1927 M. Sadleir Trollope: Comm. 169 The Autobiography contains a number of judgments on novels, and..they are ‘dunch’ and unconvincing.
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1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. liii. 513 This herbe is called..in Latine Typha..in Englishe..Dunche downe, bycause the downe will cause one to be deafe, if it happen to fall into the eares.
1789 E. Sibly Culpeper's Eng. Physician 159 It is called dunch down, because if the down thereof happens to get into the ears, it causeth deafness.
1878 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Dunche Down. Typha latifolia.
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1824 Lit. Magnet 2 154 Sworn enemies alike to Spartan black broth, and Devonshire dunch-dumplings!
1920 C. M. A. Peake Eli of Downs (1920) ii. 25 Such dumplings! Suet or baked apple or ‘dunch’ dumplings, as the case might be.
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1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Dunch passage, a blind passage.
1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases Dunch passage, a cul de sac; the term ‘blind passage’ is sometimes used in this sense.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
dunchv.
/dʌn(t)ʃ/, U.S. /dən(t)ʃ/, Scottish English /dʌnʃ/ 1. Scottish, English regional (esp. northern), and Irish English (northern) after Middle English.
a. transitive. To deliver a short, sharp blow to (someone or something); to strike, thump, push; to knock against, bump into; spec. to give (a person) a nudge or poke with the elbow.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > strike in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > strike with pushing action > give a push to
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a1250 Wohunge ure Lauerd in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 283 Þat tai þe dunchen and þrasten þe forðward swiðe toward ti dom.
a1400 Ancrene Riwle (Pepys) (1976) 97 Hou þe deuel schullen playe wiþ hem wiþ her scharpe cloches..& dunchen [c1230 Corpus Cambr. dusten] hem as pilche cloutes vche vntoward oþer.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 135 Dunchyn, or bunchyn, tundo.
a1650 D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1845) VII. 266 Others were not ashamed to shake his shoulders, and dunche him in the necke.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor vi, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 299 Here the cooper admonished his mother-in-law with his elbow... ‘Ye needna be dunshin that gate, John,’ continued the old lady.
1827 Ann. Reg. 198 I felt his skull had been dunched in.
1913 A. F. Irvine My Lady of Chimney-corner vi. 129 I ‘dunched’ my brother, who lay beside me, with my elbow. ‘Go an' see if oul' Hughie's livin' or dead,’ I said.
2010 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 19 June a30 Was it you who dunched my car?
b. intransitive. To strike, thump; to knock, bang, bump; to push, nudge. Also figurative. Frequently followed by at, against, into, etc.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > strike or deliver blows [verb (intransitive)]
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1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 11 When Trummel cleek'd her on his knee, She dunch'd and punch'd, cried, ‘fuil, let be!’
1891 W. Allan Bk. Poems 40 Noo up, noo doon, he drave an' dunched, At last the yieldin' timber crunched.
1899 M. Bentinck-Smith in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1900) II. 209/2 [Northern Ireland] She dunshed against me.
1924 L. J. Walsh Twilight Reveries 153 We nivir wakened till we heerd Jamie McKee and Robert McDonald dunchin' at the carriage window.
a1970 T. Moody Mid-Northumbrian Dial. (2007) 201 He dunched intiv uz in the dark.
2021 D. McClure in Eiks an Ens Newslet. (Scots Lang. Soc.) Feb. 3 The ice o daith at dunch’t Tae the mids o my hert.
2. transitive and intransitive. Scottish, English regional (esp. northern), and Irish English (northern). Of a cow, sheep, etc.: to butt (someone or something) with the head.
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1789 [implied in: D. Davidson Thoughts Seasons 49 The unco brute much dunching dried Frae twa-year-alls and stirks. (at dunching n.)].
1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 190 Dunsh, to but.
1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down 33 That cow will dunch you.
1899 B. Kirkby in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1900) II. 209/2 [Westmorland] T'auld billy-goat hes dunshed me 'at guts.
1962 H. Orton & W. J. Halliday Surv. Eng. Dial. I. i. 234 When cows in the field push each other about with their heads, what do you say they do? [Northumberland, Westmorland] Dunch.
2017 D. McClure in Lallans 91 68 The nowt comin breengin thegither,..dunchin ither tae the fauld.
3. transitive. Golf. To propel (the ball) low to the ground, typically for only a short distance. Also intransitive. Cf. dunch n. 3.In early use usually referring to a shot played deliberately in this way, but now usually with reference to a mishit.
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1887 W. G. Simpson Art of Golf 132 A bad ball, which can..be dunched along the ground a short distance with a brassy.
1963 Times 9 Jan. 4/3 It [sc. mud] catches one in the eye when a [golf] shot is ‘dunched’.
1989 Times (Nexis) 6 Apr. They allowed us to win by dunching into the ditch at the 18th.
2007 www.golfmagic.com 8 May (forum post, accessed 6 Nov. 2017) I dunched a chip shot so badly that the divot actually covered the ball up.
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