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Hutch vs Mutch - What's the difference?

hutch | mutch |

As nouns the difference between hutch and mutch

is that hutch is a cage in which a rabbit or rabbits are kept while mutch is .

As a verb hutch

is to hoard or lay up, in a chest.

hutch

English

Noun

(es)
  • A cage in which a rabbit or rabbits are kept.
  • * 1960 , , chapter 16,
  • To reach the courtroom, on the second floor, one passed sundry sunless county cubbyholes: the tax assessor,... the circuit clerk, the judge of probate lived in cool dim hutches that smelled
  • A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed.
  • A measure of two Winchester bushels.
  • (mining) The case of a flour bolt.
  • (mining) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
  • A jig for washing ore.
  • Verb

  • To hoard or lay up, in a chest.
  • * Milton
  • She hutched the ore.
  • (mining) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.
  • mutch

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • A linen or muslin hat, especially one of a type once commonly worn by elderly women and young children.
  • * 1901 , , The Man From Glengarry , 2007, Echo Library, page 66,
  • But of all the congregation, none enjoyed the singing more than the dear old women who sat in the front seats near the pulpit, their quiet old faces looking so sweet and pure under their snow-white “mutches .”
  • * 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 15,
  • And [...] off to the asylum they hurled the daftie, he went with a nurse's mutch on his head and he put his head out of the back of the waggon and said Cockadoodledoo! to some school bairns [...].
  • * 1986 , Sheila MacGregor, The folktales: 5: Silver and Gold'', Ewan McColl, Peggy Seeger, ''Till Doomsday in the Afternoon: The Folklore of a Family of Scots Travelers, the Stewarts of Blairgowrie , page 74,
  • So Silver and Gold gets all prepared and ready, and he says, “Och, that?s awfae-lookin? things on your heids”, he says. “Tak? they mutches' aff. You?ll no? need them now because your faither?ll no? see you.” So they tak? the ' mutches aff their heid and they throw them awa?.