recouch

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word recouch. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word recouch, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say recouch in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word recouch you have here. The definition of the word recouch will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofrecouch, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ couch: compare French recoucher.

Verb

recouch (third-person singular simple present recouches, present participle recouching, simple past and past participle recouched)

  1. (transitive) To rephrase.
    to recouch an idea in Freudian terms
  2. (obsolete) To retire again to a couch; to lie down again.
    • 1651, Henry Wotton, A Translation of the CIV. Psalm to the Original Sense:
      Then Lions Whelps lie roaring for their Prey,
      And at thy powerful Hand demand their Food;
      Who when at Morn they all recouch again,
      Then toyling Man till Eve pursues his pain.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “recouch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia