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cwtch

noun /kʊtʃ/

  1. A cubbyhole or similar hiding place.

    In front of the pavement again stretched a flat patch of rusty ground, a sort of little platform in the side of the hill where the sagging drying-lines stood and a chickens' cwtch built of orange-boxes.

  2. A hug or cuddle.

    I am expecting the big man to come round the corner and give me a ‘cwtch’ as he has done beside countless rugby fields.

Where it comes from

From Welsh cwtsh (“hug, cuddle; little corner, recess”), from Middle English couche. Doublet of couch.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry cwtch (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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