quitch.
To shake (something); to stir, move.
Meaning & usage
To shake (something); to stir, move.
To stir; to move.
To flinch; shrink.
Where this word comes from
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.
Elymus repens, couch grass (a species of grass, often considered a weed)
Where this word comes from
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.
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