- cwice
- f (-an/-an), m (-es/-as) couch (quitch)-grass
Old to modern English dictionary. 2013.
cwice
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quitch — noun Etymology: Middle English *quicche, from Old English cwice; akin to Old High German quecca couch grass Date: before 12th century quack grass … New Collegiate Dictionary
quitchgrass — quitch grass (kwĭch) n. Couch grass. [Middle English quich, from Old English cwice. See gʷei . * * * … Universalium
gʷei- — To live. Also gʷeiə (oldest form *gʷeiə₃ , with metathesized variant *gʷyeə₃ , colored to *gʷyoə₃ , contracted to *gʷyō ). Derivatives include quick, vivid, vitamin, whiskey, amphibious, microbe, and … Universalium
quitch — /kwich/, n. See couch grass. Also, quitch grass. [bef. 900; late ME quich, OE cwice; c. D kweek, Norw kvike; akin to QUICK (adj.)] * * * … Universalium
Quick — This interesting name is of Anglo Saxon origin, and has a number of possible interpretations. The first of these is from the Old English pre 7th Century word cwic , Middle English quik , alive, lively, given originally as a nickname to an agile… … Surnames reference
quick — [OE] Originally quick meant ‘alive’ (as in the now fossilized phrase the quick and the dead); it was not until the 13th century that the sense ‘rapid’ began to emerge. It goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *kwikwaz (which also produced Swedish… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
Quecke — Sf erw. fach. (15. Jh.), mndd. quecke Stammwort. Entsprechend ae. cwice f. Wird zu ig. * kwikwa lebendig, schnell (keck) gestellt, da dieses Gras fast unverwüstlich ist. Es passen aber nicht alle Verwendungsweisen zu dieser Annahme, die auch als… … Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache
couch-grass — 1570s; the first element is a corruption of O.E. cwice (see QUICK (Cf. quick)) … Etymology dictionary
quitch — noun another term for couch2. Origin OE cwice, of uncertain origin; perh. related to quick (with ref. to its vigorous growth) … English new terms dictionary
quitch — [[t]kwɪtʃ[/t]] n. pln couch grass Also called quitch′ grass . Etymology: bef. 900; late ME quich, OE cwice; c. D kweek, Norw kvike; akin to quick (adj.) … From formal English to slang
