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English
Etymology
From Middle English glucchen, a variant of gulchen (“to drink greedily”). Doublet of gulch.
Verb
glutch (third-person singular simple present glutches, present participle glutching, simple past and past participle glutched)
- (British, dialect) To swallow.
1887, Thomas Hardy, chapter 43, in The Woodlanders:And now Robert Creedle will be nailed up in parish boards 'a b'lieve; and noboby will glutch down a sigh for he!
Noun
glutch (plural glutches)
- (British, dialect) A mouthful.