Mutch vs Kutch - What's the difference?
mutch | kutch |
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 mutch and kutch
is that mutch is a nightcap (hat worn to bed) while kutch is a packet of vellum leaves in which gold is beaten into thin sheets.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?.
