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quinche

quinche is the alternative form of quinch.

Meaning of quinch

Verb

quinch (third-person singular simple present quinches, present participle quinching, simple past and past participle quinched)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To twitch, as if in pain; flinch, wince.
    • And therupon to beſtow all my Soldiers in ſuch ſort as I have done, that no part of all that Realm ſhall be able to dare to quinch […]1598, Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande, page 213

Forms of quinche

third-person singular presentquinches
present participlequinching
past participlequinched
pastquinched

Questions about quinche

What is quinche the alternative form of?
Quinche is the alternative form of quinch.

Words near quinche in the dictionary

  1. quinceworts
  2. Quincey
  3. quinch
  4. quincha
  5. Quinchao
  6. quinche
  7. quinched
  8. quinches
  9. quinching
  10. quincidence
  11. quincidences

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quinche (page history and authors); quinch (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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