Quist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Quist is a noun meaning (UK Midlands) The wood pigeon, Columba palumbus.
Meaning
(UK Midlands) The wood pigeon, Columba palumbus.
Example Sentences
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 spuggies"
Word Forms
- quists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ringdove, woodpigeon, stockdove, stoggy, popinjay, buttonquail.
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