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Cwtch (pronounced like your are going to say cook, but replace the k with tch. It is a welsh word, essentially meaning "to make small". Not as in shrinking, but in various instances like: A covering or shelter, the small space under the staircase, a hug or cuddle (because you are making the space between you small), and it also means when you like someone because you have a small space in your heart for them.
So the connotations are typically of being closed around and conforting.
So you'd use it in these ways:
I've found that this is a cousin of the word "couch" (as in the furniture) in English. Their ancestor referred to a bed or nest.
Yeah I can see how that evolved from the common influence of Latin, since romans invaded Wales. There are other Welsh words that are definitely from Latin (as was the French version.)
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