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quoths

quoths is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 quoths

What is quoths the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Quoths is the third-person singular simple present indicative of quoth.

Words near quoths in the dictionary

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

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