gulch

English

Alternative forms

• gulk, glutch (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English gulchen (“to gulp”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʌltʃ/
• Rhymes: -ʌltʃ

Verb

1. (obsolete) To swallow greedily; to gulp down.
2. (obsolete) To fall heavily.

Derived terms

• (gulp): gulch-cup

Noun

gulch (plural gulches)

1. A ravine-like or deep V-shaped valley, often eroded by flash floods; shallower than a canyon and deeper than a gully.
2. (obsolete) An act of gulching or gulping.
3. (obsolete) A glutton.
   • 1601, Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, act 3, scene 1:

     You did not! where was your sight, Œdipus? you walk with hare's eyes, do you? I'll have them glazed, rogue; an you say the word, they shall be glazed for you: come we must have you turn fiddler again, slave, get a base viol at your back, and march in a tawney coat, with one sleeve, to Goose-fair; then you'll know us, you'll see us then, you will, gulch, you will.

   • 1607, Thomas Tomkis, Lingua, or the Combat of the Tongue and the Five Senses for Superiority‎^[1], act 5, scene 16, published 1657:

     You muddy gulche, darst look me in the face while mine eyes sparkle with revengeful fire?

Derived terms

• (ravine): drygulch
• (glutton): gulchin

Translations

act of gulping — see gulp

glutton — see glutton

a narrow v-shaped valley

• Bulgarian: клисура (bg) f (klisura)
• Dutch: kloof (nl) f
• Finnish: kuru (fi)
• French: vallée fluviale f
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• Maori: āpiti
• Russian: ущелье (ru) (uščelʹje)
• Spanish: garganta (es) f
• Venetian: gola (vec) f, goƚa (vec)