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Cwtch vs Cotch - What's the difference?

cwtch | cotch |

As verbs the difference between cwtch and cotch

is that cwtch is to hug or cuddle while cotch is eye dialect of lang=en.

As a noun cwtch

is a cubbyhole or similar hiding place.

cwtch

English

Noun

(es)
  • (Wales) A cubbyhole or similar hiding place.
  • * 1944 , Glyn Jones, "An Afternoon at Ewa Shad's", The Water-Music and Other Stories :
    • In front of the pavement again stretched a flat patch of rusty ground, a sort of little platform in the side of the hill where the sagging drying-lines stood and a chickens' cwtch built of orange-boxes.
  • * 2007 , Mike Buckingham, Western Telegraph , 20 Aug 2007:
  • *:"In better times when the coalman called at our home in William Street he heaved the sacks through the front door and put their contents into the ‘cwtch ’ under the stairs, a messy business indeed."
  • (Wales) A hug or cuddle.
  • * 2007 , Ieuan Evans, The Telegraph , 18 Nov 2007:
    • I am expecting the big man to come round the corner and give me a ‘cwtch ’ as he has done beside countless rugby fields.
  • * 2011 , Rachel Mainwaring, South Wales Echo , 17 Feb 2011:
    • I don’t mind them coming in for a quick cwtch before trudging back off to their own rooms, as long as no conversation is required and it is literally just a five-minute cuddle.

    Verb

    (es)
  • (Wales) To hug or cuddle.

    • References

    * OED 2006

    cotch

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1911, author=Edward S. Ellis, title=The Lost Trail, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Blast his sowl--that hunter I mane, an' if iver I cotch him, may I be used for a flail if I don't settle his accounts." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1892, author=Harry Castlemon, title=Frank on a Gun-Boat, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Dey come here for to cotch young massa George Le Dell, 'cause dey knowed he would be shore for to come here." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1914, author=Various, title=Dew Drops Vol. 37. No. 17, April 26, 1914, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Youse bettah look out, honey, or dey'll cotch youalls, shuah!" }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1880, author=Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell, title=The Harvest of Years, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Mas'r Sumner an' a'heap mo' on 'em would jes' like fur to kill dat Mas'r Dayton ef dey could cotch him. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1901, author=John Hay, title=The Bread-winners, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=But one ting ish goot; dey cotch de murterer." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1911, author=Charles Egbert Craddock (aka Mary Noailles Murfree), title=The Raid Of The Guerilla, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Ye mought hev cotch the smallpox. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1839, author=Charles James Lever, title=The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Vol. 2, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Well, we've cotch them any how," said the urchin, as he disengaged himself from his wet saddle, and stood upon the ground; "and it is not my fault that the coach is not before us." }}