Noun: hutch
| Singular | hutch |
| Plural | hutches |
Sample Sentences
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“No place for rabbits now, but I could easy build a few hutches and you could feed alfalfa to the rabbits.” [1937, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, New York: Covici Friede, page 100:]
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To reach the courtroom, on the second floor, one passed sundry sunless county cubbyholes: the tax assessor,... the circuit clerk, the judge of probate lived in cool dim hutches that smelled[…] [1960 July 11, Harper Lee, chapter 16, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:]
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In 1880, Punch commented that the London & South Western Railway directors must have been keen rabbit fanciers, "for the number of hutches scattered over their 'system' is enormous". Yet, "these hutches are not for rabbits, but for humans, and they are technically known as 'Country Stations'". [2023 September 6, David Turner, “Best-kept stations: roots in railway's past”, in RAIL, number 991, page 54:]
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There were deep pools in the river, known as hutch pools because they are formed by hutches - breakwaters - built out from the bank. [1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 35:]
Nouns inflected like hutch
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English hucche (“storage chest”), variation of whucce, from Old English hwiċe, hwiċċe (“box, chest”). Spelling influenced by Old French huche (“chest”), from Medieval Latin hūtica, from a different Germanic root, from Frankish *hutta, from Proto-Germanic *hudjō, *hudjǭ (“box, hut, hutch”). Akin to Old English hȳdan (“to conceal; hide”). More at hide, hut.
2. (cricket pavilion or dressing room): An extension of the rabbit metaphor. See: Middle English Nouns '
hucche', Old English Nouns '
hwiċe', Old English Nouns '
hȳdan'.
Verbs referencing "hutch"
Swedish Nouns
hurts.