bunch

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But I dinna think I had been three hours in bed, when Priscilla gied me a dunch with her elbow, and, says she— "Waken, Reuben! waken!—there's an unco knocking at the street-door."

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various

"Ees, I beant dunch," replied the constable, turning and looking at his questioner.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas

"I thought lassies were aye best-natured when they had seen their jo and dearie," says I, giving her brother a sly dunch with my arm, and looking slily up in Margery's face.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various

The same Typha has been further called "Dunse-down," from making persons "dunch," or deaf, if its soft spikes accidentally run into the ears.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas

Upon which the landlord told him he did not believe the gentleman was dunch, for that he talked very well just now.

From The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes Volume 12 by Saintsbury, George