recouch

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ couch: compare French recoucher.

Verb

recouch (third-person singular simple present recouches, present participle recouching, simple past and past participle recouched)

(transitive) To rephrase.
to recouch an idea in Freudian terms
(obsolete) To retire again to a couch; to lie down again.^[1]
- 1651, Henry Wotton, A Translation of the CIV. Psalm to the Original Sense:
  Then Lions Whelps lie roaring for their Prey,
  And at thy powerful Hand demand their Food;
  Who when at Morn they all recouch again,
  Then toyling Man till Eve pursues his pain.

References

^ “recouch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

Coucher, coucher, courche

[1] “recouch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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