gulch
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English gulchen (“to gulp”).
Pronunciation
Verb
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Derived terms
- (gulp): gulch-cup
Noun
gulch (plural gulches)
- A ravine-like or deep V-shaped valley, often eroded by flash floods; shallower than a canyon and deeper than a gully.
- (obsolete) An act of gulching or gulping.
- (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
Translations
act of gulping — see gulp
glutton — see glutton