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quothing

quothing is the present participle and gerund of quoth.

Meaning of quoth

Verb (1)

quoth

  1. (archaic, defective, literary) Said.
    • Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! / Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review, volume I, number II, New York, N.Y.; London: Wiley & Putnam, […], →OCLC

Verb (2)

quoth (third-person singular simple present quoths, present participle quothing, simple past and past participle quothed)

  1. (archaic, auxiliary, defective, modal, nonstandard) To say.
    • But the Healing-one stood before the under-king, and the under-king arraigned him, quothing, thou art the king of the Jews? the Healing-one quoths him, thou quoths.1807, Samuel Henshall, The Gothic Gospel of Saint Matthew, from the Codex Argenteus of the Fourth Century; with the Corresponding English, or Saxon, from the Durham Book of the Eighth Century, in...

Questions about quothing

What is quothing the present participle and gerund of?
Quothing is the present participle and gerund of quoth.

Words near quothing in the dictionary

  1. quoteth
  2. quoteworthy
  3. quoth
  4. quotha
  5. quothed
  6. quothing
  7. Quothquan
  8. quoths
  9. quotid.
  10. quotidial
  11. quotidially

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