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Scots
Etymology
Compare glump.
Adjective
glunch (comparative mair glunch, superlative maist glunch)
- frowning; sulky; sullen
1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Volume 1:
Noun
glunch (plural glunches)
- 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!- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Verb
glunch
- 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.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)