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quetch

quetch is the alternative form of quitch.

Meaning of quitch

Verb

quitch (third-person singular simple present quitches, present participle quitching, simple past and past participle quitched)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To shake (something); to stir, move.
  2. (UK, intransitive, regional) To stir; to move.
    • With a strong yron chaine and coller bound, / That once he could not move, nor quich at all […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  3. (intransitive) To flinch; shrink.

See all 4 meanings of quitch

Forms of quetch

third-person singular presentquetches
present participlequetching
past participlequetched
pastquetched

Questions about quetch

What is quetch the alternative form of?
Quetch is the alternative form of quitch.

Words near quetch in the dictionary

  1. questrists
  2. quests
  3. questuaries
  4. questuary
  5. questward
  6. quetch
  7. quetched
  8. quetches
  9. quetching
  10. Quetelet
  11. Quetelet index

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quetch (page history and authors); quitch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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