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quist

quist noun: the wood pigeon, Columba palumbus.

quist: the wood pigeon, Columba palumbus
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Noun

quist (plural quists)

  1. (Midlands, UK) The wood pigeon, Columba palumbus.
    • It got me thinking about other names we used to call things when we were younger that for some reason as I got older we stopped doing.¶ For example the common woody was a quist, and the sparrow that we so used to love hunting on the summer hedgerows, once the wheat had been cut, were "spugs or...2012 June 26, tegater [username], “Quists, spugs and egg and bacon”, in The Hunting Life Forums

Proper noun capitalized: Quist

Quist

  1. A surname.

Forms of quist

pluralquists

Origin of quist

From Middle English quiste, quyste, quyshte, variants of Middle English couschot, cowschote, cowscott, from Old English cūsċeote (“wood pigeon, ringdove”). Doublet of cushat.

Words formed from quist

Questions about quist

What does quist mean?
Quist means the wood pigeon, Columba palumbus.
What part of speech is quist?
Quist can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of quist?
The plural of quist is quists.

Words near quist in the dictionary

  1. quisser
  2. quissers
  3. quisses
  4. quisset
  5. quissets
  6. quist
  7. Quistclose trust
  8. Quistclose trusts
  9. quists
  10. quisultazine
  11. quisutsch

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