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Meaning of cwtch | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/kʊtʃ/

Definitions

  1. A cubbyhole or similar hiding place.
    Wales
  2. A hug or cuddle.
    Wales

Equivalents

Svenska kram

Examples

“In front of the pavement again stretched a flat patch of rusty ground, a sort of little platform in the side of the hill where the sagging drying-lines stood and a chickens' cwtch built of orange-boxes.”
“"In better times when the coalman called at our home in William Street he heaved the sacks through the front door and put their contents into the ‘cwtch’ under the stairs, a messy business indeed."”
“I am expecting the big man to come round the corner and give me a ‘cwtch’ as he has done beside countless rugby fields.”
“I don’t mind them coming in for a quick cwtch before trudging back off to their own rooms, as long as no conversation is required and it is literally just a five-minute cuddle.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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