pech

name

1. An indigenous Amerindian language spoken in Honduras.

verb

1. (Northern-England, Scotland)To pant, to struggle for breath.

   “An' as they breisted the lang lang hill / The puir horse graned and peched.”

   “Then Chris saw Bruce, the porter, come in, with the mark on his jaw where his godfather hit him, then Leslie, the smith, paiching and sweating, he dropped his stick with an awful clatter.”

   “She peched and had to rest often.”

   “When Graham reached him, however, he felt so exhausted he could not immediately explain; he had to sit on the ground, peching like a seal.”

   “If he could just stop breathing and listen but he was peching too much from the climb.”