glunchv.
/ɡlʌn(t)ʃ/, U.S. /ɡlən(t)ʃ/, Scottish English /ɡlʌn(t)ʃ/ Scottish.
intransitive. To look sour or glum; esp. in phrase to glunch and gloom.
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1719 A. Ramsay Epist. to J. Arbuckle v But when ane's of his merit conscious, He's in the wrang, when prais'd, that glunshes.
1786 R. Burns Poems 30 Does ony great man glunch an' gloom? Speak out an' never fash your thumb.
1890 ‘P. Cushing’ Bull i' th' Thorn I. ix. 204 This failed to satisfy Crump. He glunched and gloomed and spat out some hot oaths.
Derivatives
glunch n. a sour look.
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1786 R. Burns Poems 27 Wha twists his gruntle wi' a glunch O' sour disdain.
glunch adj. sulky.
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1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. ix. 191 But what's the use o' looking sae glum and glunch about a pickle banes?
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