Obs. exc. dial. Also 5 lonche. [App. onomatopœic. Cf. DUNCH sb.] The sound made by the fall of a soft heavy body.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 135/1. Dunche, or lonche (H. P. lunche), sonitus, strepitus.
1890. Linc. N. & Q., July, 68. She heärd a lunch, bud she thoht it was th’ childer plaayin’.
