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quitch¹

  • /kwɪt͡ʃ/

Rhymes with -ɪtʃ

Where it comes from

From Middle English quicchen, quytchen, quecchen, from Old English cweċċan (“to shake, swing, move, vibrate, shake off, give up”). Related to Old English cwacian (“to quake”). More at quake.

verb quitches · quitching · quitched · quich · queach

  1. obsolete, transitive To shake (something); to stir, move.
  2. UK, intransitive, regional To stir; to move. With a strong yron chaine and coller bound, / That once he could not move, nor quich at all […].
  3. intransitive To flinch; shrink.

quitch²

  • /kwɪt͡ʃ/

Rhymes with -ɪtʃ

Where it comes from

From Middle English quich, a palatalized variant of quike, quyke, from Old English cwice, from Proto-West Germanic *kwikwā, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwǭ. Cognate with Dutch kweek, German Low German Queek, German Quecke.

noun quich

  1. uncountable Elymus repens, couch grass (a species of grass, often considered a weed) 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.

    Similar: couch grass, quackgrass

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@misc{quitch_2026,
  title = {quitch},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/quitch},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}