Hutch vs Mutch - What's the difference?
hutch | mutch |
A cage in which a rabbit or rabbits are kept.
* 1960 , , chapter 16,
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.
To hoard or lay up, in a chest.
* Milton
(mining) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.
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,
* 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 15,
* 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 ,
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)- 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
Verb
- She hutched the ore.
mutch
English
Noun
(es)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 .”
- 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 [...].
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?.