Transcript of “Dunch Derrière”
I promised another Newfoundland word or two, and this is another from Carol Han Hefferton.
Who said that dunch, the word dunch, do you know what this word means, Grant?
It’s the meal between dinner and lunch.
Well, it might be for some people, but she says it’s how your rear end feels after sitting too long.
And I looked it up in a couple of dictionaries.
And indeed, they say, without feeling in some part of the body caused by a stoppage in blood circulation.
Oh, what? I’m borrowing this.
Thank you, because my son and I both have this problem.
We can’t sit on the flat ground for more than a minute or two before our buttocks grow numb.
Well, there you go.
You would say I was dunch from sitting on the ground.
Definitely was dunch.
And what’s also fun is that dunch is a term that also refers to dumplings made with flour and water only or really heavy bread.
So you might say my bread is right dunch.
Or my dumplings are dunch from sitting on the ground.
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