Quoth

/kwəʊθ/ · verb

Meaning

(archaic or literary, now defective) said.

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic or literary, now defective) said
2. (defective, modal, auxiliary, nonstandard, archaic) To say.

Example Sentences

Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! / Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."

“Pull, if ye never pull’d before; / Good ringers, pull your best,” quoth he.

“Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow,” quoth Robin, “thou seemest happy this merry morn.” ¶ “Ay, that am I,” quoth the jolly Butcher, “and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?”

But the Healing-one stood before the under-king, and the under-king arraigned him, quothing, thou art the king of the Jews? the Healing-one quoths him, thou quoths.

The owner had the power of transmitting the possession to an heir by bequest, by quothing or speaking forth the name of the intended successor to the lord.

“Why, no,” quothed Jonathan; “for to tell thee the truth, friend, though I am a man of peace, being of that religious order known as the Society of Friends, I am not so weak in person nor so timid in disposition as to warrant me in being afraid of any one.[…]”

The old cow laughs, for she feels sure of a square dear now; and the wise riven quoths; quoths he: “Tis well done, let the good work go on,”[…]

“’Ods blood!” quoths Lee, “’Tis ‘Honey Dew.’”

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• quoths
• quothing
• quothed

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