quist
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quist¹
Where it comes from
From Middle English quiste, quyste, quyshte, variants of Middle English couschot, cowschote, cowscott, from Old English cūsċeote (“wood pigeon, ringdove”). Doublet of cushat.
noun quists
- The wood pigeon, Columba palumbus. It got me thinking about other names we used to call things when we were younger that for some reason as I got older we stopped doing.¶ For example the common woody was a quist, and the sparrow that we so used to love hunting on the summer hedgerows, once the wheat had been cut, were "spugs or spugg
Quist²
proper noun
- A surname.
Talk about this word "quist." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/quist. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. quist. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/quist "quist." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/quist.Cite this
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title = {quist},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/quist},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
