Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To frown; look sour; be in a dogged humor.
- noun A sudden angry look or glance; a look implying dislike, disdain, anger, displeasure, or prohibition; a frown.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Frowning; sulky; sullen.
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Examples
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Sae speaking, he sped rath frae the bield, and was sune lost i 'the glunch shadows o' the mirk night.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827 Various
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He went bye with a waff of wind in his plaiding, and his haunch-man as he passed at a discreet distance got the double share of jibe and glunch from the mariners.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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` ` But what's the use o 'looking sae glum and glunch about a pickle banes?
The Antiquary 1845
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Not to be outdone, his neighbors could be grouty and grump, glunch, grunch until they were worn out with gruntling.
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"But what's the use o 'looking sae glum and glunch about a pickle banes?
The Antiquary — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
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"But what's the use o 'looking sae glum and glunch about a pickle banes?
The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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“But what’s the use o’ looking sae glum and glunch about a pickle banes? — an ye will hae the truth, ye maun ken the minister came in, worthy man — sair distressed he was, nae doubt, about your precarious situation, as he ca’d it (for ye ken how weel he’s gifted wi’ words), and here he wad bide till he could hear wi’ certainty how the matter was likely to gang wi’ ye
The Antiquary 1584
knitandpurl commented on the word glunch
""I am not," he said, "having that lummock-de-troll glunching about this place!""
Enchanted Glass by Diana Wynne Jones, p 38 of the Greenwillow hardcover edition
January 5, 2015