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much1 adjective/adverbo ccurring after a noun or pronoun modified.
1864 Blair CW Letters (April 10) we hav no deauty to do at this time mutch. 1938 Hall Coll (Cosby Creek TN) It has just rained all summer until people can’t get to do any work much. 1972 AOHP/ALC-355 We didn’t have no sweethearts much times. 1973 GSMNP-86: Do you know anything about the Bible much? 1997 GSMNPOHP-3:13 They weather never got any colder up there much than it did here.
much2 verb To pet, coax or call, praise (especially a hunting dog) by making a sucking noise through the lips and teeth. [DARE labels this usage “chiefly South, South Midland”]
c1926 Bird Cullowhee Wordlist: much = call with lip sounds. “I mutched to my dog to come to me”; “He mutched to his horses and they pulled the wagon out of the hole.” 1939 Hall Coll (Deep Creek NC) I patted him and muched him and hissed him, and he went right on back and commenced barkin’ up the tree. 1944 Wilson Word-list 47 much (up) = to make much of, show affection for. “I muched the dogs up, and they got so they would follow me.” 1975 Jackson Unusual Words 153 To munch up or to mush up a dog is to pet him and humor him.