thrutch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɹʌt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ʌtʃ
Forms: form: thrutches
form: thrutching
form: thrutched
form: thrutched
Etymology: From Middle English thrucchen (“to push, rush”), from Old English þryċċan (“to push, press, trample on, crush”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrukkijan, from Proto-Germanic *þrukkijaną (“to press”). Cognate with West Frisian drukke (“to press”), Dutch drukken (“to press, squeeze”), German drücken (“to press, push, squeeze”), Swedish trycka (“to press, push, squeeze”).
Senses: examples: text: If awd known wot aw know neaw, says Bobby, thrutchin his honds deep into his breeches pockets un hutchin up his shilders, theaw'd not ha getten me t' Knottmill fair.
ref: 1857 February 14, James Taylor Staton, “Dumplin Haw Ghost”, in The Bowtun Luminary, volume 8, number 7, Bolton, page 52:
text: GOOD. A class o' folk ut thinken theirsels so perfect they need no thrutch for t' get a front place i'th' top shop. But if they yerd th' trumpet seaund they'd be off like red-shanks; an' wouldno' care whoa they elbowed back at th' gates.
ref: 1881, Benjamin Brierley, Ab-o'th'-Yate's Dictionary; or, Walmsley Fowt Skoomester, Manchester: Abel Heywood & Son, page 91:
glosses: To push; press; shove; thrust.
examples: text: Thrutchings.—To thrutch is to squeeze. The whey which is squeezed out of the cheese when under pressure and after being salted, is called thrutchings.
ref: 1891 March 4, Robert Holland, “Cheese-making and Butter-making Terms in Use in 1688”, in The Cheshire Sheaf, Chester: The "Chester Courant" Office, published 1895, Replies, page 39:
glosses: To press or squeeze cheese in a vat.
examples: text: Thir wur o lot o foke thrutchin reawnd summut; un aw thrutcht mi sel omung um , for to see whot wur gooin on.
ref: 1857, “Part Sixt Un Last”, in Sam Sondnokkur's Ryde fro Ratchda to Manchistur, 2nd edition, Manchester: John Heywood, page 14:
text: But, there it wur,—an' there it had to stop! for noather her nor me could stir a peg. ... Well; they olez say'n there's th' most thrutchin' wheer there's th' least reawm, an' it wur so theer, by th' mon;[…]
ref: 1874, Edwin Waugh, “The Nomination”, in The Chimney Corner, Manchester: Abel Heywood & Son, published 1879, page 40:
synonyms: word: mass
word: press
word: assemble
word: begather
word: collect
word: congregate
word: congress
word: crowd
word: fall in with
word: flock
word: forgather
word: gather
word: gather up
word: group
word: herd
word: league
word: mass
word: meet
word: meet up
word: muster
word: pack
word: press
word: team
word: team up
word: thring
word: throng
word: thrutch
word: astringe
word: compact
word: compactify
word: condense
word: densitize
word: pack
word: press
word: mash
word: scrunch
word: smush
word: squoosh
word: squash
word: squish
word: squeeze
word: thring
word: thrutch
glosses: To crowd; throng; squeeze; huddle together.
examples: text: Then he grunted, an' mumble't, an' glendur't around,
An' he tooted about o'er th' neighbourin' ground;
Still, never a soul to turn th' stone could he find,
An' it made him a little bit thrutched in his mind.
ref: 1874, Edwin Waugh, “The Old Coal Man”, in The Chimney Corner, Manchester: Abel Heywood & Son, published 1879, page 74:
synonyms: grame
stress
torment
vex
glosses: To trouble; oppress; distress.
examples: text: I thrutched up the final crack to a small pinnacle.
topics: caving
climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To push, press, or squeeze into a place; move sideways or vertically in an upright position by wriggling the body against opposing rock surfaces. Compare chimney.
Derived terms: thrutch up
thrutcher
thrutching match
thrutchings