glunch
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Scots[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare glump.
Adjective[edit]
glunch (comparative mair glunch, superlative maist glunch)
- frowning; sulky; sullen
- 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Volume 1[1]:
- "But what's the use o' looking sae glum and glunch about a pickle banes?
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Noun[edit]
glunch (plural glunches)
- A sullen, angry look; a look of disdain or dislike.
- 1780, Robert Burns, Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns[2]:
- May gravels round his blather wrench, An' gouts torment him, inch by inch, What twists his gruntle wi' a glunch O' sour disdain, Out owre a glass o' whisky-punch Wi' honest men!
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Verb[edit]
glunch
- To frown; to look sullen.
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
- The fiend had bare departed when Ailie came over the threshold to find the auld carline glunching over the fire.
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