(2) Stupid, heavy; now the common use. 'The wapses gets dunch' in late autumn. A labourer who can't be made to understand orders is 'dunch.'—N. & S.W. (3) Of bread, heavy (Wild Life, ch. vii). Cf. Dunch-dumpling.—N. & S.W. Dunchy is frequently used in S. Wilts instead of Dunch, but usually means deaf.
Dunch-dumpling. A hard-boiled flour-and-water dumpling (A.B.C.) See Dunch (3).—N.W.
Dunch-nettle, Dunse-nettle. (1) Lamium purpureum, L., Red Dead-nettle. Dunch=stupid, inactive. Cf. Deaf-nettle.—S.W. (2) Lamium album, L., White Dead-nettle.—S.W. (Barford.)
Dung-pot. A dung-cart (D.); rarely Dum-put. See Pot.—N. & S.W.
*Dup. 'To dup the door,' to open or unfasten it (Lansd. MS. 1033).—Obsolete. Cf. :—
'Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes,
And dupp'd the chamber-door.'—Hamlet, iv. 5.
The word now means the very reverse.
Dutch Elder. Aegopodium Podagraria, L., Goutweed.—S.W. (Farley, &c.)
Duther, Dutter. See Dodder.