Pech vs Mech - What's the difference?
pech | mech |
(Scotland, Northern England) To pant, to struggle for breath.
*1933 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Cloud Howe'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 321:
*:Then Chris saw Bruce, the porter, come in, with the mark on his jaw where his godfather hit him, then Leslie, the smith, paiching and sweating, he dropped his stick with an awful clatter.
*1955 , (Robin Jenkins), The Cone-Gatherers , Canongate 2012, p. 207:
*:When Graham reached him, however, he felt so exhausted he could not immediately explain; he had to sit on the ground, peching like a seal.
*1994 , (James Kelman), How Late it Was, How Late :
*:If he could just stop breathing and listen but he was peching too much from the climb.
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