different between nightcap vs mutch

English

Etymology

night +? cap

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?na?t?kæp/

Noun

nightcap (plural nightcaps)

1. A warm cloth cap worn while sleeping, often with pajamas, being common attire in northern Europe before effective home heating became widespread. [From 14th c.]

   Winston wore a nightcap to stave off the cold.

2. A beverage drunk before bed that is usually alcoholic. [From 1818.]

   I'll make myself a nightcap of whisky and lemon before heading to bed.

3. (by extension, figuratively) Something the person reads or listens to before bed.
   • 1920, Granville Stanley Hall, Recreations of a Psychologist

     " […] and as a nightcap I happened to pick the copy of Plato […] "

4. (US, sports, baseball) The final match of a sporting contest, especially the second game of a baseball doubleheader. [From 1939.]
5. (historical) A cap drawn over the face of the condemned person before they are hanged.

Translations

Anagrams

• patching

English

Etymology

From Middle Dutch mutse, from amutse, from Late Latin almucia (“almuce”); compare amice, mozzetta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?t??/
• Rhymes: -?t?

  Homophones: much

Noun

mutch (plural mutches)

1. (now rare, Scotland) A nightcap (hat worn to bed). [from 15th c.]
2. A linen or muslin hat, especially one of a type once commonly worn by elderly women and young children. [from 16th c.]
   • 1901, Ralph Connor, The Man From Glengarry, 2007, Echo Library, page 66,

     But of all the congregation, none enjoyed the singing more than the dear old women who sat in the front seats near the pulpit, their quiet old faces looking so sweet and pure under their snow-white “mutches.”

   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 15,

     And […] off to the asylum they hurled the daftie, he went with a nurse's mutch on his head and he put his head out of the back of the waggon and said Cockadoodledoo! to some school bairns […]

   • 1986, Sheila MacGregor, The folktales: 5: Silver and Gold, Ewan McColl, Peggy Seeger, Till Doomsday in the Afternoon: The Folklore of a Family of Scots Travelers, the Stewarts of Blairgowrie, page 74,

     So Silver and Gold gets all prepared and ready, and he says, “Och, that?s awfae-lookin? things on your heids”, he says. “Tak? they mutches aff. You?ll no? need them now because your faither?ll no? see you.” So they tak? the mutches aff their heid and they throw them awa?.

Derived terms

• night mutch
• bonet mutch
• double mutch
• under-mutch
• hair-mutch
• mutchless
• kell mutch
• laced mutch