10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GLUNCH»
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The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete ...
Sc. Yks. Also written glumch Sc. Bntl'.l [glum], gl'8mj'.] 1. v. To show sulkiness of
temper, pout; to look sad; to labour under lowness of spirits. Cf. glunch. Sc. She
glumch'd thereat And nearly grat, DR UInloNn M uckomaehy (1846) 5. Butt? Flt'.
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
Sc. Yks. Also written glumch Sc. Bnil'.' [glam], glemfl 1. 11. To show sulkiness of
temper, pout; to look sad; to labour under lowness of spirits. Cf. glunch. Sc.
Sheglumch'd thereat And nearly grat, DRUMMONDilluckomarlp' (18.16) 5. IBnfl'.l
Fif.
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Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. Suppl. ...
To GLUNSH, v. n. 1. To look sour.] Add ; Haldorson expl. I si. glenska jocus
mordax ; q. a biting or sarcastical joke. 2. To be in a dogged humour, Roxb. To
Glunch and Gloum, v. n. To look doggedly, S. Glunsh, Glunch, s. 1. A sour look.]
Add; 2.
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The Roxburghshire Word-Book
“Awkward, ugly, and staring” (Hilson). C, s. T2. “Glaring; applied to anything very
gaudy, calculated to please a vulgar taste” (Jam). Rxb. [With 1 cf. Sc. glandie, s.w.
Sc. (1824) glunner stupid fellow, and E. blundering] GLUNSH, sb. Also glunch.
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A dictionary of Lowland Scotch: with an introductory chapter ...
Glunch, an angry frown, a sulky or forbidding expression of countenance. " To
glunch and gloom," to look angry, discontented, sulky, and gloomy. Glunschoch,
one who has a frowning or morose countenance ; from the Gaelic glonn, a qualm,
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Glunch. G-L-U-N-C-H. Glunch. (She opens her eyes, looks anxious, then smiles.
She speaks quickly.) I knew I was right. Glunch is such an easy word — spelled
like it sounds. But you always have that little moment of doubt that maybe you ...
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Rustic Speech and Folk-lore
Glunch. and. gloom,. Peak. and. pine. 123. beas blarin' an' bloorin', an' them
sheap bealin' oot ? Naaither God nor me is deaf, man.' To chop and change is so
common as to have become a colloquialism. It is a very old phrase, occurring as
far ...
Elizabeth Mary Wright, 1913
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Complete Glossary to the Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns: ...
If one of all the four has frown 'd, You ne'er saw people glummer. — Ambrose
Phillips. Glunch. A frown, to frown. Glunch seems to differ from gloom, if one may
venture to distinguish between words so nearly identical in meaning, in this
respect ...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine
Will ever mend her." —Burns : Letter to John Goudie. Glunch, an angry frown :- "A
glunch O' sour disdain." —Burns : Scotch Drink. " Does ony gloom ?" great man
glunch and —Burns : Cry and Prayer. Gowk, the cuckoo, a fool, or a person who ...
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The Edinburgh monthly magazine [afterw.] Blackwood's ...
Glunch, an angry frown : — "A glunch 0' sour disdain." — Burns : Scotch Drink. "
Does ony great man glunch and gloom ? " — Burns : Cry and Prayer. Gowk, the
cuckoo, a fool, or a person who has but one idea, and is always repeating it ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GLUNCH»
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Joplin Little Theatre stages Eleemosynary
And while Green threw words out like "limicolous" and "glunch" and, of course, "eleemosynary," with a script that easily could have been ... «Joplin Independent, Jan 15»
Thieves dressed as delivery workers stealing Huron Township …
AS SOON AS THEY REACH VARIED LOCAL 4 WILL BRING YOU INSTANT GLUNCH SADLY IT HAPPENS, CROOKS FOLLOWING ... «WDIV Detroit, Dec 14»
Sketch: the economy goes from Bard to worse
After all, does ony great man glunch an' gloom? Instead, he backward cast his e'e on prospects drear, by blaming the dire growth figures on the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 12»
