Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
quitch-grass . - To shake; stir; move.
- To stir; move.
- To flinch; shrink.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Same as
quitch grass . - noun Figuratively: A vice; a taint; an evil.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A species of
grass , often considered as aweed . - verb transitive, obsolete To
shake ;stir ;move . - verb intransitive, obsolete To
stir ;move . - verb intransitive To
flinch ;shrink .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Isch. And if a gang of men set to, to break and make this fallow with the mattock, it is transparent that their business is to separate the quitch grass from the soil and keep them parted?
Oeconomicus 2007
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Just so! — to throw the quitch grass down to wither on the surface, and to turn the soil up, so that the crude earth may have its turn of baking.
Oeconomicus 2007
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The buoyant sound of the brass was seen as quitch, an artifact from the distant past.
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The buoyant sound of the brass was seen as quitch, an artifact from the distant past.
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He would avoid surprising any stragglers at the next village, and would get into touch with the head men, explaining that he was the long-lost son of Kla-quitch, who had escaped after all these years from the Mission, and had come back, learned in all the knowledge of the white men and armed further with this most wonderful appliance of magic, to take his place as hereditary medicine-man of his tribe.
The Penance of Magdalena & Other Tales of the California Missions J. Smeaton Chase
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What was Kla-quitch, with his painted sticks and bones, compared with him, if only he were the possessor of this marvel!
The Penance of Magdalena & Other Tales of the California Missions J. Smeaton Chase
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Both grace and will to pick the vicious quitch [6]
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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He could hear the people calling to one another from their spots of refuge, and ever the burden of the shout was either "Kla-quitch!" or "Yellow!"
The Penance of Magdalena & Other Tales of the California Missions J. Smeaton Chase
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All the things his father, old Kla-quitch, the medicine-man, used to do were nothing to this.
The Penance of Magdalena & Other Tales of the California Missions J. Smeaton Chase
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Well, he would go on: probably the well-remembered name of Kla-quitch would make it all right.
The Penance of Magdalena & Other Tales of the California Missions J. Smeaton Chase
jaime_d commented on the word quitch
From "C. Musonius Rufus" by Guy Davenport
January 19, 2010