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thrutch

  • /θɹʌt͡ʃ/

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Where it comes from

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”).

verb thrutches · thrutching · thrutched

  1. Northern England, UK, dialectal To push; press; shove; thrust. 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.
  2. Northern England, UK, dialectal To press or squeeze cheese in a vat. 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.
  3. Northern England, UK, dialectal To crowd; throng; squeeze; huddle together. Thir wur o lot o foke thrutchin reawnd summut; un aw thrutcht mi sel omung um , for to see whot wur gooin on.

    Similar: mass, press, assemble, begather, collect, congregate, congress, crowd, fall in with, flock, forgather, gather

  4. Northern England, UK, dialectal, figuratively To trouble; oppress; distress. 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.

    Similar: grame, stress, torment, vex

noun thrutches

  1. Northern England, UK, dialectal A narrow gorge or ravine.
  2. Northern England, UK, dialectal A push; shove; thrust. There wur nowt left for Yem, theerefore, but to rouse up hur conshusness, so so settin his feet ogen hur un his bonds, he gien one sammin good thrutch, un sent hur slap off th' bed on to th' floor;
  3. Northern England, UK, dialectal A throng; a crowd.

verb thrutches · thrutching · thrutched

  1. Northern England, UK, dialectal 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. I thrutched up the final crack to a small pinnacle.

noun thrutches

  1. Northern England, UK, dialectal An obstacle overcome by thrutching; an act of thrutching.

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@misc{thrutch_2026,
  title = {thrutch},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/thrutch},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}