dunch
/dʌnt͡ʃ/ · verb
Meaning
- To knock against; to hit, punch
- To crash into; to bump into.
- To gore with the horns, as a bull.
- To push, jog, or nudge, especially with the elbow.
- A push; knock; bump.
- A fat hit from a claggy lie.
- A leisurely meal between lunch and dinner in the late afternoon or early evening (about 3-5 p.m.), usually instead of lunch or dinner.
- A surname.
Etymology / origin
From Middle English dunchen, of uncertain origin. Possibly from the noun (see below); or of North Germanic origin, related to Old Swedish diunga (“to hit, knock”), dialectal Swedish dunka (“to beat”); or from Middle English dengen, from Old English denġan, denċġan (“to knock, ding”), from Proto-Germanic *dangijaną (“to bang, knock”). Compare English dinge.
- dinge(English)→
- *dangijaną(gem-pro)→
- denġan(ang)→
- dengen(enm)→
- dunka(Swedish)→
- diunga(gmq-osw)→
- -(gmq)→
- dunchen(enm)→
- dunch (English)
- Relations: inh, der, cog, cog, inh, inh, inh, cog
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