noun

• 1A cupboard or cubbyhole.

  ‘To have a cwtch, to tell the dog to go somewhere, you know, it must mean as a safe, a safe place.’

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  • ‘My dad has memories of buying potatoes by the hundredweight in autumn and storing then in the outside cwtch and then eating them until spring when he was young.’
  • ‘There was also the coal cwtch, which was the shed you kept the coal in.’
  • ‘It's in the cwtch.’

• 2A cuddle or hug.

  ‘He gives the best cwtches in the world, and knows how to make me smile.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘A cwtch is more like the kind of cuddle you get when you are still a bach, and you are cwtched up with your Mam; and her shawl is wrapped around both you and her.’