Re: Regional dialects


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Posted by John Nichols on July 26, 2005 at 17:43:40 from 165.91.196.16 user Mcneacail.

In Reply to: Regional dialects posted by paul on July 26, 2005 at 04:09:19:

thrutch:

Again from the OED - and this one should also be submitted.

Now dial.

(rt) Forms: . 1 ryccan, 4-5 thricche, rich(e. . 3 rucche, 6, 8 thruch, 6- thrutch. pa. tense and pple. 1 ryhte, ryht, 4 ryt, 4-5 thricchet, thrucchit; 5 thright. [OE. rycc(e)an = OHG. drucchen (MHG., G. drücken) to press,:WGerm. *rukkjan, nominal vb. f. *rukki-, whence OHG. druck (MHG. druc, G. druck) pressure.]

1. trans. To press, squeeze, crush; to crowd, throng; fig. to oppress.

c888 13.. c1440
c1400 1546 c1746 1888


c888 K. ÆLFRED Boeth. iv, Sitta manfulle on heahsetlum, and halie under heora fotum ryca. 13.. E.E. Allit. P. A. 17 at dotz bot rych my hert range. Ibid. B. 135 He fande..A ral ryt in e rong unryuandely cloed. c1400 Destr. Troy 13461 Mony holes in the howses..Ouer~growen with..thornes, Euyn thestur and thicke thricchet of wode. c1440 Anc. Cookery §438 in Househ. Ord. (1790) 471 When hit is sothen, thricche oute the water. 1546 COVERDALE Treat. Lord's Supp. Transl. Pref. Aiij, Thrutchyng vp into a corner yt parte whiche no place can conteyne. c1746 J. COLLIER (Tim Bobbin) View Lanc. Dial. 1 Yet I'm war thrutcht, between two arran Rogues. 1888 Sheffield Gloss., Thrutch, to thrust, to squeeze.

b. spec. To press (cheese).

1688 1818


1688 R. HOLME Armoury III. viii. 335/1 Thruch them in the Cheese-Fate. 1818 WILBRAHAM Cheshire Gloss. 29 Squeezing or pressing the cheese is called thrutching it.

2. To thrust, push.

c1205 13..
13.. c1400 ?a1500 1885


c1205 LAY. 19483 He wænde mid his crucche us adun rucche. 13.. E.E. Allit. P. A. 705 He..dyed Delfully ur hondez ryt. 13.. Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1443 For re at e fyrst rast he ryt to e ere. c1400 Destr. Troy 6732 He..wan to the knight, And xxx in the throng thrucchit to dethe. ?a1500 Chester Pl. x. 406 When they their spears throughe him thright. 1885 Cheshire Gloss. s.v., I'st be thrutched off here.

3. intr. To push or press into a place; to jostle.

[a1000] 1848
c1837


[a1000 Guthlac (Exeter Bk.) 285 We as wic maun fotum afyllan, folc in rice meara reatum and monfarum.] c1837 in Stephens Mem. R. Durnford (1899) 75 ‘Thrutch him up’ shouted some..malcontents at a..vestry meeting [at Middleton, Lancs.]... ‘Thrutch away, gentlemen’, replied the young Rector, jumping on to an oak chest. 1848 T. BLEZARD Westmoreld. Songs 35 (E.D.D.) At last we thrutch'd into th' Ship Inn.

Hence thrutching vbl. n. (in quot., squeezing, wringing); also concr. (in pl.): see quot. 1885. thrutcher, Lancash.: see quot. 1901.

c1400 c1746 1885 1901


c1400 Destr. Troy 1522 All his wongys were wete for weping of teres,..with thricching of hondys. c1746 J. COLLIER (Tim Bobbin) View Lanc. Dial. Wks. (1862) 68, I stown a lyte Wetur-podditch, an some Thrutchings. 1885 Cheshire Gloss., Thrutchings, whey which is thrutched or squeezed out whilst the cheese is under pressure. 1901 F. E. TAYLOR Folk-Sp. S. Lancs. (E.D.D.), Thrutcher, specially applied to the pushers of a rush-cart, and to the boys who push the corves in a coal-pit.




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