| Summary: | dunch _dunch_ a _EDD_ dunch adj 4 'heavy.doughy' W Doughy, heavy, soggy 1896 PATTERSON 21 Dunch cake or bread, unleavened bread, composed of flour mixed with water and baked at once. 1896 _Dialect Notes_ i, 378 [Description of] bread not properly baked. 1924 ENGLAND [-]Gloss[-] 315 ~ Heavy; soggy (as of bread). P56 L Harris ~ heavy, unleavened. Said of bread or any other flour mixture that failed to rise for lack of yeast or for some other reason. P64 E Dawe I make good bread, though these [loaves] are dunch. C71-113 R Parsons Dunch bread is bread that doesn't rise as bread with leaven normally does. RH WK GMS. Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 2 Used I In the form of a dictionary entry
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