Etymology

hutchie

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Today it means: A dugout or shelter, especially as used in the Korean War. Full definition →

Japanese 家
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from家“house”
  2. English todayhutchie

From Japanese 家 (uchi, “house”), with possible influence from hut (“shelter”) or hutch (“box”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.