"mutch" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /mʌt͡ʃ/ Forms: mutches [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌtʃ Etymology: From Middle Dutch mutse, from amutse, from Late Latin almucia (“almuce”); compare amice, mozzetta. Etymology templates: {{der|en|dum|mutse}} Middle Dutch mutse, {{m|dum|amutse}} amutse, {{cog|LL.|almucia||almuce}} Late Latin almucia (“almuce”), {{m|en|amice}} amice, {{m|en|mozzetta}} mozzetta Head templates: {{en-noun}} mutch (plural mutches)
  1. (now rare, Scotland) A nightcap (hat worn to bed). Tags: Scotland, archaic Categories (topical): Headwear
    Sense id: en-mutch-en-noun-eBLWkY~K Disambiguation of Headwear: 75 25 Categories (other): Scottish English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 64 36 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 79 21
  2. A linen or muslin hat, especially one of a type once commonly worn by elderly women and young children.
    Sense id: en-mutch-en-noun-AujzB9vf
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: night mutch, bonet mutch, double mutch, under-mutch, hair-mutch, mutchless, kell mutch, laced mutch

Inflected forms

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      "word": "under-mutch"
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      "word": "hair-mutch"
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      "word": "kell mutch"
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        "A nightcap (hat worn to bed)."
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        "(now rare, Scotland) A nightcap (hat worn to bed)."
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          "ref": "1901, Ralph Connor, The Man From Glengarry, Echo Library, published 2007, page 66",
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          "ref": "1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 15",
          "text": "And […] off to the asylum they hurled the daftie, he went with a nurse's mutch on his head and he put his head out of the back of the waggon and said Cockadoodledoo! to some school bairns […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1986, Sheila MacGregor, The folktales: 5: Silver and Gold, Ewan McColl, Peggy Seeger, Till Doomsday in the Afternoon: The Folklore of a Family of Scots Travelers, the Stewarts of Blairgowrie, page 74,\nSo Silver and Gold gets all prepared and ready, and he says, “Och, that′s awfae-lookin′ things on your heids”, he says. “Tak′ they mutches aff. You′ll no′ need them now because your faither′ll no′ see you.” So they tak′ the mutches aff their heid and they throw them awa′."
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      "ipa": "/mʌt͡ʃ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌtʃ"
    },
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      "homophone": "much"
    }
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    {
      "word": "bonet mutch"
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    {
      "word": "double mutch"
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    {
      "word": "under-mutch"
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    {
      "word": "hair-mutch"
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          "text": "And […] off to the asylum they hurled the daftie, he went with a nurse's mutch on his head and he put his head out of the back of the waggon and said Cockadoodledoo! to some school bairns […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1986, Sheila MacGregor, The folktales: 5: Silver and Gold, Ewan McColl, Peggy Seeger, Till Doomsday in the Afternoon: The Folklore of a Family of Scots Travelers, the Stewarts of Blairgowrie, page 74,\nSo Silver and Gold gets all prepared and ready, and he says, “Och, that′s awfae-lookin′ things on your heids”, he says. “Tak′ they mutches aff. You′ll no′ need them now because your faither′ll no′ see you.” So they tak′ the mutches aff their heid and they throw them awa′."
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      ],
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      "ipa": "/mʌt͡ʃ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌtʃ"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "much"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mutch"
}

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