Meanings
verbglutch (third-person singular simple present glutches, present participle glutching, simple past and past participle glutched)
present singular third person glutches · participle present glutching · participle past glutched · past glutched
- UKdialectalTo swallow.
And now Robert Creedle will be nailed up in parish boards 'a b'lieve; and noboby will glutch down a sigh for he!
1887, Thomas Hardy, chapter 43, in The Woodlanders
Origin
- Middle Englishglucchen
- Englishglutch
From Middle English glucchen, a variant of gulchen (“to drink greedily”). Doublet of gulch.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “glutch,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glutch.
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