Nuch vs Unch - What's the difference?
nuch | unch |
(surfing, slang, dated) Not much, hardly, barely, to an insignificant degree.
(surfing, slang, dated) A response to the greeting/question What's up?
(crossword puzzles) An unchecked square: one that is part of only one entry (i.e., across or down, but not both).
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Unch is a anagram of nuch.
As an adverb nuch
is not much, hardly, barely, to an insignificant degree.As an interjection nuch
is a response to the greeting/question What's up?As a noun unch is
an unchecked square: one that is part of only one entry (i.e., across or down, but not both).nuch
English
Adverb
(-)Interjection
(en interjection)- Dude! Sup? - Nuch .
Anagrams
*unch
English
Noun
(es)- The Sympathy Crossword Grid Editor supports:
- o flagging of lights outside a configurable unch range
- From 1933 onwards the grids were standard grids. Then, for some reason, there was a blip in the late 1940s, a couple of the grids from that era had double unches and double checking.
- The bars and multitude of black squares are common in British puzzles because they allow unchecked letters (called unches')—or letters that don't need to cross with another answer.... There are rules regarding the ' unches , and traditionally every other letter in a solution should be checked with another letter.