quitch
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /kwɪtʃ/
quitch (quitches, present participle quitching; past and past participle quitched)
- (transitive, obsolete) To shake (something); to stir, move. [8th-13th c.]
- (intransitive, now UK, regional) To stir; to move. [from 13th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.9:
- With a strong yron chaine and coller bound, / That once he could not move, nor quich at all […].
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.9:
- (intransitive) To flinch; shrink.
quitch (uncountable)
- Elymus repens, couch grass a species of grass, often considered a weed
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin 2005, p. 21:
- we found the bones and ashes half mortered unto the sand and sides of the Urne; and some long roots of Quich, or Dogs-grass wreathed about the bones.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin 2005, p. 21:
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