dunch

See also: Dunch

English

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ʌntʃ

Etymology 1

Origin Template:unk.. Possibly of (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  origin, related to Old Swedish diunga (“to hit, knock”); or from Middle English dengen, from Old English denġan, denċġan (“to knock, ding”), from Proto-Germanic *dangijaną (“to bang, knock”). Compare English dinge.

Alternative forms

• dunsh (Geordie)

Verb

dunch (third-person singular simple present dunches, present participle dunching or dunchin, simple past and past participle dunched)

1. (Geordie) To knock against; to hit, punch
2. (Geordie) To crash into; to bump into.
3. (Scotland) To gore with the horns, as a bull.
4. (British) To jog, especially with the elbow.

Noun

dunch (plural dunches)

1. (golf) A fat hit from a claggy lie.

References

• Frank Graham, editor (1987), “DUNCH”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.
• “Dunch”, in Palgrave’s Word List: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎^[1], archived from the original on 2024-09-05, from F[rancis] M[ilnes] T[emple] Palgrave, A List of Words and Phrases in Everyday Use by the Natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham […] (Publications of the English Dialect Society; 74), London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1896, →OCLC.
• Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin “dunch”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎^[2], archived from the original on 2024-09-05.
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• Golfing dictionary, accessed on 2005-06-01

Etymology 2

, probably in imitation of brunch.

Noun

dunch

1. (informal, rare) 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.

   For tomorrow, I’ve a lunchtime appointment so let's have dunch together instead.

Translations

meal between lunch and dinner

• Breton: adverenn (br) f
• Interlingua: merenda
• Italian: merenda (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Persian: عصرانه (fa) (asraneh)
• Portuguese: merenda (pt) f
• Slovak: olovrant m

See also

• food

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Scots

Verb

dunch (third-person singular simple present dunches, present participle dunchin, simple past duncht, past participle duncht)

1. to hit, punch