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quitches

quitches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of quitch.

Meaning of quitch

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.

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Questions about quitches

What is quitches the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Quitches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of quitch.

Words near quitches in the dictionary

  1. quitasol
  2. quitasols
  3. quitch
  4. quitch grass
  5. quitched
  6. quitches
  7. quitchgrass
  8. quitching
  9. quitclaim
  10. quitclaim deed
  11. quitclaim deeds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quitches (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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