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thrutch en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /θɹʌt͡ʃ/

Etymology

From Middle English thrucchen (“to push, rush”), from Old English þryċċan (“to push, press, trample on, crush”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrukkijan, from Proto-Germanic *þrukkijaną (“to press”). Cognate with West Frisian drukke (“to press”), Dutch drukken (“to press, squeeze”), German drücken (“to press, push, squeeze”), Swedish trycka (“to press, push, squeeze”).

Meanings

  1. (Northern-England, UK, dialectal) A narrow gorge or ravine.
  2. (Northern-England, UK, dialectal) An obstacle overcome by thrutching; an act of thrutching.
  3. (Northern-England, UK, dialectal) A push; shove; thrust.
    • There wur nowt left for Yem, theerefore, but to rouse up hur conshusness, so so settin his feet ogen hur un his bonds, he gien one sammin good thrutch, un sent hur slap off th' bed on to th' floor; 1857 January 10, “Jealousy”, in The Bowtun Luminary, volume 8, number 2, Bolton, page 15:
  4. (Northern-England, UK, dialectal) A throng; a crowd.

Forms

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thrutches Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

thrack · thruchins

thrutch en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /θɹʌt͡ʃ/

Etymology

From Middle English thrucchen (“to push, rush”), from Old English þryċċan (“to push, press, trample on, crush”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrukkijan, from Proto-Germanic *þrukkijaną (“to press”). Cognate with West Frisian drukke (“to press”), Dutch drukken (“to press, squeeze”), German drücken (“to press, push, squeeze”), Swedish trycka (“to press, push, squeeze”).

Meanings

  1. (Northern-England, UK, dialectal) To push; press; shove; thrust.
    • GOOD. A class o' folk ut thinken theirsels so perfect they need no thrutch for t' get a front place i'th' top shop. But if they yerd th' trumpet seaund they'd be off like red-shanks; an' wouldno' care whoa they elbowed back at th' gates. 1881, Benjamin Brierley, Ab-o'th'-Yate's Dictionary; or, Walmsley Fowt Skoomester, Manchester: Abel Heywood & Son, page 91:
    • If awd known wot aw know neaw, says Bobby, thrutchin his honds deep into his breeches pockets un hutchin up his shilders, theaw'd not ha getten me t' Knottmill fair. 1857 February 14, James Taylor Staton, “Dumplin Haw Ghost”, in The Bowtun Luminary, volume 8, number 7, Bolton, page 52:
  2. (Northern-England, UK, dialectal) To push, press, or squeeze into a place; move sideways or vertically in an upright position by wriggling the body against opposing rock surfaces. Compare chimney.
    • I thrutched up the final crack to a small pinnacle.
  3. (Northern-England, UK, dialectal) To press or squeeze cheese in a vat.
    • Thrutchings.—To thrutch is to squeeze. The whey which is squeezed out of the cheese when under pressure and after being salted, is called thrutchings. 1891 March 4, Robert Holland, “Cheese-making and Butter-making Terms in Use in 1688”, in The Cheshire Sheaf, Chester: The "Chester Courant" Office, published 1895, Replies, page 39:
  4. (Northern-England, UK, dialectal) To crowd; throng; squeeze; huddle together.
    • Thir wur o lot o foke thrutchin reawnd summut; un aw thrutcht mi sel omung um , for to see whot wur gooin on. 1857, “Part Sixt Un Last”, in Sam Sondnokkur's Ryde fro Ratchda to Manchistur, 2nd edition, Manchester: John Heywood, page 14:
    • But, there it wur,—an' there it had to stop! for noather her nor me could stir a peg. ... Well; they olez say'n there's th' most thrutchin' wheer there's th' least reawm, an' it wur so theer, by th' mon;[…] 1874, Edwin Waugh, “The Nomination”, in The Chimney Corner, Manchester: Abel Heywood & Son, published 1879, page 40:
  5. (Northern-England, UK, dialectal, figuratively) To trouble; oppress; distress.
    • Then he grunted, an' mumble't, an' glendur't around, An' he tooted about o'er th' neighbourin' ground; Still, never a soul to turn th' stone could he find, An' it made him a little bit thrutched in his mind. 1874, Edwin Waugh, “The Old Coal Man”, in The Chimney Corner, Manchester: Abel Heywood & Son, published 1879, page 74:

Forms

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thrutched Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
thrutched Tense=Past lexicographic
thrutches Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
thrutching Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

thrutching match · thrutchings · thrutcher · thrutch up

Synonyms

stress · fall in with · squash · team up · team · congregate · congress · condense · mash · mass · torment · press · meet · begather · herd · squeeze · assemble · thrutch · gather · forgather · squoosh · league · crowd · throng · muster · pack · smush · thring · pack · compactify · press · telescope · thring · group · vex · mass · collect · flock · gather up · meet up · densitize · thrutch · press · astringe · squish · grame · compact · scrunch