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hutch¹

  • /hʌt͡ʃ/

Rhymes with -ʌtʃ

Where it comes from

From Middle English hucche (“storage chest”), variation of whucce, from Old English hwiċe, hwiċċe (“box, chest”). Spelling influenced by Old French huche (“chest”), from Medieval Latin hūtica, from a different Germanic root, from Frankish *hutta, from Proto-Germanic *hudjō, *hudjǭ (“box, hut, hutch”). Akin to Old English hȳdan (“to conceal; hide”). More at hide, hut.

(cricket pavilion or dressing room): An extension of the rabbit metaphor.

noun hutches

  1. A box, chest, crate, case or cabinet.
  2. A coop or cage for keeping small animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, etc). “No place for rabbits now, but I could easy build a few hutches and you could feed alfalfa to the rabbits.”
  3. A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed.
  4. A cabinet for storing dishes.
  5. A piece of furniture (cabinet) to be placed on top of a desk.
  6. A measure of two Winchester bushels.
  7. The case of a flour bolt.
  8. A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
  9. A jig or trough for ore dressing or washing ore.
  10. A baker's kneading-trough.
  11. slang The pavilion or dressing room.
  12. An embankment built in a river to check erosion caused by running water. There were deep pools in the river, known as hutch pools because they are formed by hutches - breakwaters - built out from the bank.

verb hutches · hutching · hutched

  1. transitive To hoard or lay up, in a chest. She hutched the all-worshipt ore.
  2. transitive To wash (ore) in a box or jig.
  3. ambitransitive To move with a jerk; to hitch. And the mind was very disinclined to hutch out of the crevice and face what must be done. […] He hauled himself out of the crevice and the air was warm so that he undressed to trousers and sweater. […] He hutched himself back against a rock with his legs sprawled apart.

Hutch²

proper noun

  1. A male given name.
  2. A surname.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: hovel, hut, shack, shanty, stake, pyre, glove, bonfire, hoss, hooch, gloves, jeannot, chest, caddy, buist, hatbox

Translations

Every language

noun box, chest, crate, case or cabinet

DeutschKiste, Kasten, Box

noun cage or coop for small animals

Españolconejera
Françaisclapier
DeutschStall, Hasenstall, Kaninchenstall, Hundehütte
Italianogabbia, conigliera
Русскийкле́тка klétka

noun furniture in which items are displayed

DeutschVitrine

noun cabinet for storing dishes

DeutschGeschirrschrank, Anrichte, Kredenz

noun cabinet to be placed on top of a desk

DeutschAufsatz, Schreibtischaufsatz

noun (mining) A car on low wheels

DeutschHunt, Hund, Grubenhunt, Förderwagen, Bergwerksfahrzeug

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@misc{hutch_2026,
  title = {hutch},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hutch},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}