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quich

quich is the obsolete spelling of quitch.

Meaning of quitch

Noun

quitch (uncountable)

  1. Elymus repens, couch grass (a species of grass, often considered a weed)
    • 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.1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 21

See all 4 meanings of quitch

Forms of quich

Noun
pluralquiches
Verb
third-person singular presentquiches
present participlequiching
past participlequiched
pastquiched

Questions about quich

What is quich the obsolete spelling of?
Quich is the obsolete spelling of quitch.

Words near quich in the dictionary

  1. quicas
  2. quice
  3. Quiceno
  4. Quicenos
  5. quices
  6. quich
  7. quiche
  8. quiche lorraine
  9. quiche-eater
  10. quiche-eaters
  11. Quichean

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quich (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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