Quitch

Quick meaning: Quitch is a verb meaning (transitive, obsolete) To shake (something); to stir, move.

Meaning

(transitive, obsolete) To shake (something); to stir, move.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, now UK, regional) To stir; to move.
2. (intransitive) To flinch; shrink.
3. Elymus repens, couch grass (a species of grass, often considered a weed)

Example Sentences

With a strong yron chaine and coller bound, / That once he could not move, nor quich at all […].

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.

Word Forms

• quitches
• quitching
• quitched
• quich
• quinch

Synonyms for quitch

Depending on context, synonyms include quackgrass.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include quinch, quirt, quob, quiver, shake, tremble.

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