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quinches

quinches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of quinch.

quinches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of quinche.

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

Questions about quinches

What is quinches the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Quinches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of quinch.

Words near quinches in the dictionary

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

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