quitch

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Elymus repens, couch grass (a species of grass, often considered a weed) uncountable
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To shake (something); to stir, move. obsolete,transitive
  2. To stir; to move. UK,intransitive,regional
    — With a strong yron chaine and coller bound, / That once he could not move, nor quich at all […].
  3. To flinch; shrink. intransitive

词形变化

quitches present,singular,third-person quitching participle,present quitched participle,past quitched past quich alternative queach alternative queatch alternative quinch alternative quetch alternative queck alternative quich alternative,obsolete

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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.
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