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quatch

quatch adjective: squat, pudgy, fat. Also the alternative spelling of quatsch.

Adjective

quatch

  1. (obsolete, rare) Squat, pudgy, fat.
    • It is like a barber’s chair that fits all buttocks: the pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, the brawn-buttock, or any buttock.c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Noun

quatch (countable and uncountable, plural quatches)

  1. (obsolete, rare) A word, a sound.
    • No! not a quatch ſad poets! Doubt you,
      There is not grief enough without you?1647, Richard Corbet, “An Elegy Upon the Death of Queen Anne”, in Certain Elegant Poems, page 78

Also used as

quatch is also the alternative spelling of quatsch.

quatch is also the alternative form of quitch.

Forms of quatch

Noun
pluralquatches
Verb
third-person singular presentquatches
third-person singular presentquatcheth
present participlequatching
past participlequatched
pastquatched

Questions about quatch

What does quatch mean?
Quatch means squat, pudgy, fat.
What part of speech is quatch?
Quatch can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near quatch in the dictionary

  1. quata
  2. quatacaine
  3. Quatannens
  4. quatas
  5. Quatavious
  6. quatch
  7. quatches
  8. quate
  9. quatenus
  10. quater-imaginary
  11. quatercentenaries

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