dunch

Meanings

Verb

• To knock against; to hit, punch
• To crash into; to bump into.
• To gore with the horns, as a bull.
• To jog, especially with the elbow.

Noun

• A push; knock; bump.
• A fat hit from a claggy lie.
• 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.

Related

Similar words

• linner
• lupper

Origin

• From Middle English dunchen, of uncertain origin. Possibly from the noun (see below); or of North Germanic origin, related to Old Swedish diunga, dialectal Swedish dunka; or from Middle English dengen, from Old English denġan, denċġan, from Proto-Germanic *dangijaną. Compare English dinge.
• From Middle English dunche, perhaps from Old English *dynċ, from Proto-Germanic *dunkiz. Compare Old Norse dykr, dynkr, Danish dunk, Swedish dunk, Norwegian dunk.
• , probably in imitation of brunch.