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語源 1

From 中期英語 dunchen, of uncertain origin. Possibly from the noun (see below); or of North Germanic origin, related to Old Swedish diunga (“to hit, knock”), dialectal Swedish dunka (“to beat”); or from 中期英語 dengen, from 古期英語 denġan, denċġan (“to knock, ding”), from Proto-Germanic *dangijaną (“to bang, knock”). Compare English dinge.

別の表記

• dunsh (Geordie)

動詞

dunch (third-person singular simple present dunches, present participle dunching or dunchin, simple past and past participle dunched)

1. (Geordie) To knock against; to hit, punch
2. (Geordie) To crash into; to bump into.
3. (Scotland) To gore with the horns, as a bull.
4. (UK) To push, jog, or nudge, especially with the elbow.

語源 2

From 中期英語 dunche, perhaps from 古期英語 *dynċ, from Proto-Germanic *dunkiz.

Compare Old Norse dykr, dynkr (“a crashing noise”), Danish dunk (“a blow”), Swedish dunk (“a thump, clap”), Norwegian dunk (“a knock, bump”).

名詞

dunch (plural dunches)

1. (dialectal) A push; knock; bump.
   • 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:

     And just at the same time the tide caught the brig, and threw the wind out of her sails. She came round into the wind like a top, and the next moment struck the reef with such a dunch as threw us all flat upon the deck, and came near to shake Mr. Riach from his place upon the mast.

2. (golf) A fat hit from a claggy lie.

参照

• Frank Graham, editor (1987), “DUNCH”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.
• “Dunch”, in Palgrave’s Word List: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎, archived from the original on 5 September 2024, from F[rancis] M[ilnes] T[emple] Palgrave, A List of Words and Phrases in Everyday Use by the Natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham […] (Publications of the English Dialect Society; 74), London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1896, →OCLC.
• Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin, “dunch”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎, archived from the original on 5 September 2024.
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• Golfing dictionary, accessed on 2005-06-01

語源 3

Blend of dinner +‎ lunch, probably in imitation of brunch.

名詞

dunch

1. (informal, rare) A leisurely meal between lunch and dinner in the late afternoon or early evening (about 3-5 p.m.), usually instead of lunch or dinner.

   I have a lunchtime meeting tomorrow, so let's have dunch together instead.

同意語

• linner
• lupper

参考

• brinner
• brunch
• brupper