quitch

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kwɪt͡ʃ/ Rhymes: -ɪtʃ === Etymology 1 === From Middle English quicchen, quytchen, quecchen, from Old English cweċċan (“to shake, swing, move, vibrate, shake off, give up”). Related to Old English cwacian (“to quake”). More at quake. ==== Alternative forms ==== quich, queach, queatch, quinch, quetch, queck ==== Verb ==== quitch (third-person singular simple present quitches, present participle quitching, simple past and past participle quitched) (transitive, obsolete) To shake (something); to stir, move. [8th–13th c.] (intransitive, now UK, regional) To stir; to move. [from 13th c.] (intransitive) To flinch; shrink. === Etymology 2 === From Middle English quich, a palatalized variant of quike, quyke, from Old English cwice, from Proto-West Germanic *kwikwā, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwǭ. Cognate with Dutch kweek, German Low German Queek, German Quecke. ==== Alternative forms ==== quich (obsolete) ==== Noun ==== quitch (uncountable) Elymus repens, couch grass (a species of grass, often considered a weed) Synonyms: couch grass, quackgrass ===== Derived terms ===== (plant): couch, couch-grass, quitch grass, quitchgrass ===== Translations =====