Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb Uttered; said. Used only in the first and third persons, with the subject following.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Preterit of quethe.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb Said; spoke; uttered; -- used only in the first and third persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, the word or words said being the object.

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  • verb archaic or literary Simple past of quethe; said

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Old English cwǣth, third person sing. past tense of cwethan, to say; see gwet- in Indo-European roots.]

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Old English cwæþ

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  • quoth the raven 'nevermore'

    August 21, 2007