Quat

Quick meaning: Quat is a noun meaning (transitive, obsolete) To satiate.

Meaning

(transitive, obsolete) To satiate.

More Meanings

1. (Scotland, dialectal, transitive) To relinquish, forsake, give up.
2. (Wales and Southwest England, dialectal, intransitive) To squat or crouch down.
3. (Scotland, dialectal, with "of") Free; no longer involved with; quit.
4. (chemistry) A quaternary ammonium cation or compound.
5. Quaternary.
6. (obsolete) A pustule.
7. (obsolete) An annoying, worthless person.

Example Sentences

They seem to our ears indeed to have "quat their roaring play."

I have rubb'd this young quat almost to the sense, And he grows angry.

Ye hae grown proud since ye quatted the begging. — Scottish proverb, said satirically.

Tarka quatted on the ledge ; he knew that Deadlock would follow hiin wherever he swam in water.

Word Forms

• quats
• quatting
• quatted

Related Words

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