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quoth, v. (pa. tense) Now arch. or dial.|kwəʊθ|
[Pa. tense of quethe v. to say.]
Said.
1. Used with ns., or pronouns of the first and third persons, to indicate that the words of a speaker are being repeated.
The vb. is always placed before the subject, and the clause is commonly inserted parenthetically towards the beginning of the words quoted, but may also precede or follow the whole sentence or speech.
(α) 3 cwað, 3–4 quað, quad, (3 quat, hwat), 3–5 quaþ; 3 pl. queþen.
c1200Vices & Virtues 67 ‘Hlauerd,’ cwað he, ‘hwat mai ic don [etc.].’ c1250Gen. & Exod. 1313 Quat abraham, ‘god sal bi-sen [etc.].’ Ibid. 3331 Quad moyses, ‘loc! her nu bread.’ c1290S. Eng. Leg. 432/41 ‘Leoue Moder,’ queþen þe sones. c1305Andrew 33 in E.E.P. (1862) 99 Hou miȝte hit beo, quaþ þe Iustise, þat his wille were þerto. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. i. 41 ‘A Madame Merci!’ quaþ I ‘me likeþ wel þi wordes.’
(β) 3 pl. quoðen; 4 quoþ, coþe, coth, cuth, 4– quoth, (6 qwoth).
c1250Gen. & Ex. 2993 Quoðen ðo wiches clerkes ‘ðis fortoken godes gastes is.’ a1300Cursor M. 7575 (Cott.), Þou es, coth golias, bot ded. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 776 ‘Now bone hostel’ coþe þe burne. 1508Dunbar Tua mariit wemen 161 To speik, quoth scho, I sall nought spar. 1581Nowell & Day in Confer. i. (1583) E iiij b, The fyre (quoth wee) hathe heate and lyght. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. vii. §6 No, Quoth the King, I will not be both party and judg. c1705Pope Jan. & May 222 ‘I say,’ quoth he, ‘by heav'n the man's to blame.’ 1782Cowper John Gilpin 25 Quoth Mrs. Gilpin, ‘That's well said’. 1829Hood Eng. Aram xiii, ‘And well’ quoth he, ‘I know for truth.’ 1838Lytton Alice 146 ‘I know no man I respect more than Maltravers,’ quoth the admiral. 1884Browning Ferishtah, Mihrab Shah 1 Quoth an inquirer, ‘Praise the Merciful!’
(γ) 4 quot, cod, 4–7 quod (the prevailing form c 1350–1550).
13..Cursor M. 5005 (Gött.), ‘Say me,’ quot iacob, ‘hou es þis?’ Ibid. 19311 (Edinb.) ‘Lauerdingis, it es selcuþe,’ cod þai. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. ii. 5 ‘Loke on þe lufthond,’ quod heo ‘and seo wher [he] stondeþ.’ c1420Sir Amadace (Camd.) xxxviii, Quod the quite knyȝte, ‘Quat mon is this’? c1470Henry Wallace vi. 133 ‘Quhom scornys thow?’ quod Wallace, ‘quha lerd the?’ 1513Douglas æneis viii. Prol. 122 Quod I, Lovne, thou leis. 1549Coverdale etc. Erasm. Par. 1 Tim. 2, I haue not chosen (quod he) out of an other mannes flocke. c1620A. Hume Brit. Tongue (1865) 18 Be quhat reason? quod the Doctour.
(δ) 5 quo, 6 ko, ka, 8 Sc. co', 8–9 quo'.
c1450Merlin 33 ‘In feith,’ quo the oon, ‘I sholde suffer grete myschef er he had eny harm.’ a1553Udall Royster D. iii. iii. (Arb.) 44 Bawawe what ye say (ko I)..Nay I feare him not (ko she) 1756W. Toldervy Hist. 2 Orphans I. 39 Marry (quo' she) I think it is the province of our elder brother. a1774Fergusson Iron Kirk Bell Poems (1845) 44 Quo' he..‘This bell o'mine's a trick’. 1818Scott Rob Roy xxiv, Whae's Mr. Robert Campbell, quo' he? 1893Crockett Stickit Minister 127 ‘Horse or mule,’ quo' she [etc.].
†b. Used at the end of a piece to introduce the name of the author. Obs. (Chiefly Sc.)
a1500King's Quair (S.T.S.) 48 Explicit, &c. Quod Jacobus Primus. 1508Dunbar Lament *101 Quod Dunbar quhen he was seik. c1550Lusty Juventus. Finis. Quod R. Weuer. 1583Satir. Poems Reform. xlv. *1118 Finis. Quod R. S. [1788Burns Friars Carse 55 Quod the Beadsman of Nith-side.]
†2. Used interrogatively with a pronoun of the second person, with the same force as quotha. Obs.
The form quothee may be a var. of quotha.
a1553Udall Royster D. i. ii. (Arb.) 17 Enamoured, quod you?.. Enamoured ka? Ibid. iii. iv. 54 Scribler (ko you). 1573New Custom i. ii, Primitiue Constitution (quodes stowe) as much as my sleeve! 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 12 Rich, quoth you? They are rich indeede toward the deuill and the world. a1600Grim, the Collier of Croydon ii. iv. (1662) 30 As it falls! quoth ye, marry a foul fall is it. 1681T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 5 (1713) I. 28 Earn..And what Trade do they intend to drive? Jest. What Trade, quothee?
¶ Hence (erroneously) ˈquothing, saying.
1864Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. III. 402 The owner had the power of transmitting the possession to an heir by bequest, by quothing or speaking forth the name of his intended successor to the lord. |