Cwtch vs Cutch - What's the difference?
cwtch | cutch |
(Wales) A cubbyhole or similar hiding place.
* 1944 , Glyn Jones, "An Afternoon at Ewa Shad's", The Water-Music and Other Stories :
* 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:
* 2011 , Rachel Mainwaring, South Wales Echo , 17 Feb 2011:
(Wales) To hug or cuddle.
(nautical) a preservative, made from catechu gum boiled in water, used to prolong the life of a sail
As nouns the difference between cwtch and cutch
is that cwtch is (wales) a cubbyhole or similar hiding place while cutch is (nautical) a preservative, made from catechu gum boiled in water, used to prolong the life of a sail.As a verb cwtch
is (wales) to hug or cuddle.cwtch
English
Noun
(es)- 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.
- I am expecting the big man to come round the corner and give me a ‘cwtch ’ as he has done beside countless rugby fields.
- 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.