glunch

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Scots

Etymology

Compare glump.

Adjective

glunch (comparative mair glunch, superlative maist glunch)

  1. frowning; sulky; sullen
    • 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Volume 1:
      "But what's the use o' looking sae glum and glunch about a pickle banes?
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Noun

glunch (plural glunches)

  1. A sullen, angry look; a look of disdain or dislike.
    • 1780, Robert Burns, Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns:
      May gravels round his blather wrench, An' gouts torment him, inch by inch, What twists his gruntle wi' a glunch O' sour disdain, Out owre a glass o' whisky-punch Wi' honest men!
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Verb

glunch

  1. To frown; to look sullen.
    • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
      The fiend had bare departed when Ailie came over the threshold to find the auld carline glunching over the fire.
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