glunch, v. Sc.
(glʌnʃ)
Also glunsh.
[Cf. glum a. and clunch a. 2]
intr. To look sour or glum; esp. in phrase to glunch and gloom.
| 1719 Ramsay Ep. to Jas. Arbuckle v, But when ane's of his merit conscious, He's in the wrang, when prais'd, that glunshes. 1786 Burns Earnest Cry 25 Does ony great man glunch and gloom? Speak out, an' never fash your thoom! 1890 ‘P. Cushing’ Bull i' th' Thorn I. ix. 204 This failed to satisfy Crump. He glunched and gloomed and spat out some hot oaths. |
Hence glunch n., a sour look; glunch a., sulky.
| 1786 Burns Sc. Drink xvii, Wha twists his gruntle wi' a glunch O' sour disdain. 1816 Scott Antiq. ix, ‘But what's the use o' looking sae glum and glunch about a pickle banes?’ |