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quat¹

  • /kwɒt/ UK
  • /kwɑt/ US

Rhymes with -ɒt

noun quats

  1. obsolete A pustule.
  2. obsolete An annoying, worthless person. I have rubb'd this young quat almost to the sense, And he grows angry.

verb quats · quatting · quatted

  1. obsolete, transitive To satiate. 1757, Samuel Foote, The Author, Act II, Scene ii, 1765, The Dramatic Works, Volume 1, page 28, Mrs. Cad. Well, come, begin and ſtart me, that I may come the ſooner to quatting——Huſh ! here′s Siſter ; what the deuce brought her !
  2. Scotland, dialectal, transitive To relinquish, forsake, give up. Ye hae grown proud since ye quatted the begging. — Scottish proverb, said satirically.
  3. dialectal, intransitive To squat or crouch down. Tho' B-lt-n, quatted in the hall, Her jolly r-mpfs display'd, The size of it amaz'd them all, and Hector quite dismay'd.

adjective

  1. Scotland, dialectal, not comparable, with "of" Free; no longer involved with; quit. My word, I gie him nae encouragement ! I canna bide the sicht o' him, and wad gie the best gown I hae to be quat o' him."

quat²

  • /kwɒt/ UK
  • /kwɑt/ US

Rhymes with -ɒt

Where it comes from

Clipping of quaternary.

noun quats

  1. A quaternary ammonium cation or compound. “Because quats are positively charged, and skin proteins have a slightly negative charge, quats like to attach themselves to skin,” said Greg Nole, a manager at Unilever, the parent company of Vaseline and Dove.

adjective

  1. not comparable Quaternary.

quat³

  • /kwɒt/ UK
  • /kwɑt/ US

Rhymes with -ɒt

Where it comes from

See khat.

noun quats

  1. alternative, countable, uncountable Alternative spelling of khat

QUAT⁴

noun QUATs

  1. alternative Alternative form of quat (“quaternary ammonium”).

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@misc{quat_2026,
  title = {quat},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/quat},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}