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quitch

/kwɪt͡ʃ/

quitch verb: to shake (something); to stir, move.

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.

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

quitch meaning in Tamil

quitch in Tamil

வேர்நீளிப்புல்

Synonyms of quitch

Forms of quitch

third-person singular presentquitches
present participlequitching
past participlequitched
pastquitched
alternative formquich
alternative formqueach
alternative formqueatch
alternative formquinch
alternative formquetch
alternative formqueck

Origin of quitch

From Middle English quicchen, quytchen, quecchen, from Old English cweċċan (“to shake, swing, move, vibrate, shake off, give up”). Related to Old English cwacian (“to quake”). More at quake.

From Middle English quich, a palatalized variant of quike, quyke, from Old English cwice, from Proto-West Germanic *kwikwā, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwǭ. Cognate with Dutch kweek, German Low German Queek, German Quecke.

Words formed from quitch

Words that rhyme with quitch

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Questions about quitch

What does quitch mean?
Quitch means to shake (something); to stir, move.
What is quitch in Tamil?
Quitch in Tamil is வேர்நீளிப்புல். See Quitch meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is quitch?
Quitch can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce quitch?
Quitch is pronounced /kwɪt͡ʃ/.
What is the past tense of quitch?
The past tense of quitch is quitched.

Words near quitch in the dictionary

  1. quit-renter
  2. quit-renters
  3. quit-rents
  4. quitasol
  5. quitasols
  6. quitch
  7. quitch grass
  8. quitched
  9. quitches
  10. quitchgrass
  11. quitching

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: quitch (page history and authors); quitch (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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