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单词 quat
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quatn.1

Brit. /kwat/, /kwɒt/, U.S. /kwæt/, /kwɑt/
Forms: 1500s– quat, 1700s quatt (English regional (Nottinghamshire)), 1700s (1800s– English regional (midlands)) quot.
Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown.Perhaps compare German regional (Low German) Quaddel swelling, pustule, boil ( > German Quaddel (17th cent.)), cognate with Old High German quedilla pustule, Old English cwydele swelling, pustule, boil.
1.
a. A pimple, a pustule; a small boil. Now English regional (chiefly midlands).
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > abscess > boil > pustule
bladderc1000
whelkc1000
pustulea1398
pusha1400
pustulation?a1425
whealc1440
pust1527
burble1555
quat1597
pouk1601
bube1608
bub1612
crystal1661
blotch1669
epinyctis1676
phlyzacium1693
varus1756
stone-pock1818
whey-worm1828
1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 153 Inflammations and soft swellings, burnings, impostumes, and cholerike sores or quats.
1752–3 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 15 A Quat, or Quot, being a small Heat or Pimple.
1777–8 R. Wight Horæ Subsecivæ (MS Bodl. Eng. lang. d.66) 347 [Gloucestershire] A Quat, Pustula, a Kind of little Pimple or Whelk.
1848 A. B. Evans Leicestershire Words 71 He was rubbing his throat, and he broke the head of his quot.
a1903 J. P. Kirk in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 670/2 [Nottinghamshire] What's that there quot on yer nose?
1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 86 Quat, quot, a pimple.
b. English regional (chiefly west midlands). An inflamed swelling on the edge of an eyelid; a stye.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > sty
styanc1000
grandoa1400
styanyc1440
west1569
styea1625
chalazion1708
stithe1789
wisp1789
hordeolum1806
quat1876
meibomian cyst1895
1876 Mrs. Francis S. Warwickshire Words Quat, a sty in the eye.
1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester 122 Quot, a stye in the eye.
1974 P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry xii. 111 Styes on the eye may be quats or wests.
2001 C. Chinn & S. Thorne Proper Brummie 136 Quat, a stye on the eyelid.
2. depreciative. A person, esp. a youth. Chiefly in young quat. archaic and rare after 17th cent.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > person > young person > [noun]
youngeOE
younglingOE
girlc1300
youtha1325
young onec1384
birdc1405
young person1438
young blood1557
primrosea1568
slip1582
juvenal1598
quat1607
airling1611
egga1616
saplinga1616
chita1657
a slip of a girla1660
juvenile1733
young adult1762
boots1806
snip1838
spring chicken1857
yob1859
kid1884
chiseller1922
juvenile adult1926
YA1974
yoof1986
1607 T. Dekker & G. Wilkins Iests to make you Merie 63 I speake it for the good of all yong Quats, who beeing sent vp by the honest farmers (their Fathers) to bee turned into Gentlemen by finding the Law, study onely how to Moote.
1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. E4v Whether he be a young Quat of the first yeeres reuennew, or some austere and sullen-facd steward.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1623) v. i. 11 I haue rub'd this yong Quat [1622 gnat] almost to the sense, And he growes angry.
1623 J. Webster Deuils Law-case ii. i O young quat, incontinence is plagu'd In all the creatures of the world.
a1945 E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1958) xxxii. 157 All the more is he inwardly resolved to brook no overlordship in Rerek..from a young quat such as Styllis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

† quatn.2

Forms: 1600s quat, 1600s quatte.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: quat v.1
Etymology: < quat v.1 Compare quat adj. and squat n.1
Obsolete. rare.
The act or state of squatting close to the ground.Frequently with reference to hares; cf. squat n.1 3, 4.
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the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [noun] > squatting
quat?1602
?1602 Narcissus (MS Bodl. Rawl. poet. 212) (1893) 475 The doggs have putt the hare from quatte.
1612 J. Webster White Divel sig. H A full crie for a quarter of an hower; And then..put to th' dead quat.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

quatn.3

Brit. /kwɒt/, U.S. /kwɑt/
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: quaternary adj.
Etymology: Shortened < quaternary adj. (in the phrases quaternary ammonium compound , quaternary ammonium salt ). Compare earlier quaternary n.
Chemistry.
A quaternary ammonium cation or salt, esp. one used as a disinfectant, herbicide, or surfactant. Cf. quaternary n. 4.
ΚΠ
1947 O. Rahn & W. P. van Eseltine in Ann. Rev. Microbiol. 1 173 The quaternary ammonium compounds (called quats in this discussion for the sake of brevity) are characterized by their property of greatly depressing the surface tension of water.
1962 M. G. DeNavarre Chem. & Manuf. Cosmetics (ed. 2) II. 308 In this complex field [of synthetic surfactants] it is important to remember that the term cationic encompasses a group of products called the ‘Quats’ (quaternary ammonium compounds).
1970 Avian Dis. 14 211 During the last 33 years, quaternary ammonium compounds (quats) have gained wide usage as germicides in industry.
2006 Food Chem. 97 181/1 One particularly difficult type of herbicide is the group of quaternary ammonium salts, also known as quats.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

quatadj.

Brit. /kwat/, /kwɒt/, U.S. /kwæt/, /kwɑt/
Forms: late Middle English quatte, late Middle English 1600s quat; English regional (southern and midlands) 1700s quert (Dorset, perhaps transmission error), 1700s 1900s– quott, 1700s– quot, 1800s– quat, 1900s– quatty (Cornwall).
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: quat v.1
Etymology: < quat v.1 Compare Middle French cati in hiding, crouching (a1403; also as cotti ) and also Italian quatto crouching, quiet (a1321). Compare squat adj.In sense 2 perhaps a different word; compare quat v.1 3. In form quatty probably after quatty , south-western variant of quat v.1, although compare also -y suffix1.
Now rare (English regional (chiefly south-western) in later use).
1. Crouching or squatting close to the ground; esp. crouching still and quiet in hiding.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > not moving
stillc888
unmoving?a1425
quatc1425
stock-still1508
stony1642
riveting1658
sitfast1669
unstirringa1684
sedate1684
statued1744
unshifting1811
stirless1816
unwaving1818
immotioned1821
standstill1829
akinetic1841
swayless1856
flutterless1873
static1910
squat1956
the world > space > relative position > posture > action of crouching or squatting > [adjective]
quatc1425
hurkling?a1513
hurkled1567
squat1582
crouchanta1593
crouching1600
couchant1693
squatted1818
squatting1871
scrooched1885
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [adjective] > hidden
dighela1000
dernc1000
wriena1250
privyc1300
unshewedc1386
wrapped1398
quatc1425
tectc1440
blinda1522
coucheda1522
dark1532
lurkingc1540
velated1542
hiddena1547
inclusive1554
concealed1558
secret1559
occult1567
disguised1594
occulted1598
derned1600
shrouded1600
latent1605
abstrused1608
supposed1608
unshown1614
enshielda1616
retruse1623
dissembled1631
researched1636
recondite1649
delitescent1653
larved1654
tected1657
bedilt1660
bosomed1667
inhidden1674
underground1677
abditive1727
secreted1756
unextruded1808
unprotruded1812
undisplayed1822
larvated1832
dissimulated1838
latescent1852
squat1956
c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 98 (MED) What hunter þat fyndeþ an hert quat and hym þenk it be þe hunted deer..shuld wel be ware þat he blow not to nye hym lest he stert and go away.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 463 The x traitoris that were quatte [Fr. enbuchiet] in the gardin vnder an ympe.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 463 Bretell and Vlfin..weren quat [Fr. quati] vnder the steyres.
1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 310 The rest lay so quat and close that they could not be apprehended. View more context for this quotation
1686 J. Bunyan Bk. for Boys & Girls 21 My lying quat, until the Fly is catcht, Shews [etc.].
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (at cited word) Quott, sat down, or squatted.
1850 in ‘N. Hogg’ Lett. Devonshire Dial. (ed. 2) Notes 81 Yu mist turn roun tu ur dree times, and go quat.
1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Quat, close, still, as a hare on her form.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) Zo zoon's ever her got in the vuller (fallow) field, her (the hare) went quat torackly.
2. Satiated, glutted.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [adjective] > over-fed, gorged, or sated
full of foodOE
surfeitousc1390
repletea1400
satiate1440
fulsome1447
overfed1579
surfeited1584
gorged1594
overgorged1607
gluttoneda1658
saturated1658
throat-full1681
quat?c1730
stalled1740
englutted1814
cloyed1830
stodged1873
?c1730 J. Haynes Dorsetshire Vocab. in Notes & Queries (1883) 21 July 45/1 Quert, satiated.
c1741 E. Carter Let. in Mem. (1808) I. 27 I believe I am grown quott of assemblies, &c.
1837 J. F. Palmer Gloss. in M. Palmer Dialogue Devonshire Dial. Quat,..weary of eating, dull.
1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Quot, cloyed, glutted.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) He'll zoon be quat, I'll warn 'un.
3. Low and broad; squat.
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1837 J. F. Palmer Gloss. in M. Palmer Dialogue Devonshire Dial. Quat, squat.
1863 W. Barnes Gram. & Gloss. Dorset Dial. There's a little quot rick.
1871 G. P. R. Pulman Rustic Sketches (ed. 3) 128 A liddle quot howze.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

quatv.1

Brit. /kwɒt/, U.S. /kwɑt/, Canadian English /kwɒt/, Welsh English /kwɔt/, /kwat/
Forms: late Middle English quatte, late Middle English quot, late Middle English qwat, late Middle English whot, 1500s 1700s quatt, 1600s– quat, 1900s– quot' (Newfoundland); English regional 1600s– quot (southern and midlands), 1800s– quad (Gloucestershire), 1800s– quatty (south-western), 1800s– quott (south-western), 1800s– qwatty (south-western), 1800s– qwot (Wiltshire).
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French quatir.
Etymology: < Middle French quatir, catir, coitir to hide (oneself), to crouch (used reflexively; c1200 in Old French), to hide (13th cent.), to fall to the ground (c1232), to beat (14th cent.; earliest with reference to the sound of a stork shutting its bill; compare also an apparently isolated use in sense ‘to thrust’ (c1307); French catir to press, beat (in clothmaking and in gilding), French regional (northern and western) se catir , se coitir to hide oneself, to crouch), further etymology uncertain, perhaps ultimately < classical Latin coāctus compressed, compelled (see coact adj.). Compare earlier squat v. With sense 1 compare also the Romance parallels cited at quat adj.Sense 3 is apparently not paralleled in French and perhaps shows a different word; compare earlier over-quat v.
Now chiefly English regional (south-western), Welsh English, and Newfoundland.
1.
a. intransitive. To crouch down close to the ground, as an animal in hiding; to squat; (also) to duck.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > posture > action of crouching or squatting > crouch or squat [verb (intransitive)]
ruck?c1225
cowerc1300
crouchc1394
couch?a1400
hurklea1400
quatc1425
squat1573
squat1609
thigh1611
swat1615
hunker1720
lower1720
squattle1786
croodle1788
scrooch1844
c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 20 (MED) He shal ruse out of þe way for to stalle or quatte to rest hym.
1757 S. Foote Author ii. 29 You grow tir'd at last, and quat, Then I catch you.
1781 Art & Pleasures of Hunting in W. Blane Ess. on Hunting 125 She will only leap off a few rods, and quat, until one or other of the Dogs jumps upon her.
1816 ‘P. Pindar’ Wks. III. 252 No, Joan, dant..ren and quat, just leek a hare, And think I'll hunt thee down.
1863 J. Moreton Life & Work in Newfoundland 36 ‘If you're short taken’, he said, ‘quat right down where you're to’.
1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 222 The crake..will then..if still hunted, ‘quat’ in the thickest bunch of grass or weeds he can find.
1898 J. A. Gibbs Cotswold Village 108 Sometimes when out shooting the keeper ‘will suddenly say “quad down”’.
1927 H. Williamson Tarka the Otter vi. 71 He washed for nearly half an hour, quatting on a mossy rock.
1968 H. Orton & M. F. Wakelin Surv. Eng. Dial. IV. iii. 1012 Q[uestion]. If you saw a stone coming straight for your head, you'd at once... [Cornwall] Quat (down).
1974 Evening Telegram (St. John's, Newfoundland) 6 Feb. 3 People having to wade through snow drifts to get to outdoor privies and ‘quot' down’ with the wind and snow howling around them.
1999 D. Parry Gram. & Gloss. Conservative Anglo-Welsh Dial. Rural Wales 178/1 Quat, to squat down on the haunches. 2. To duck one's head.
†b. intransitive. To sink back, subside. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > movement of material > [verb (intransitive)] > movement under gravity or water > settle or subside
settle1560
subside1671
quata1722
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1752) 118 If rain in the interim should come, such ground will quatt, and the furrow will fill up.
2. transitive. To beat or press down; to squash, flatten; to crush. Also intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > crush, stifle, or overwhelm (feelings, etc.)
shendOE
whelvec1000
allayOE
ofdrunkenc1175
quenchc1175
quashc1275
stanchc1315
quella1325
slockena1340
drenchc1374
vanquishc1380
stuffa1387
daunt?a1400
adauntc1400
to put downa1425
overwhelmc1425
overwhelvec1450
quatc1450
slockc1485
suppressa1500
suffocate1526
quealc1530
to trample under foot1530
repress1532
quail1533
suppress1537
infringe1543
revocate1547
whelm1553
queasom1561
knetcha1564
squench1577
restinguish1579
to keep down1581
trample1583
repel1592
accable1602
crush1610
to wrestle down?1611
chokea1616
stranglea1616
stifle1621
smother1632
overpower1646
resuppress1654
strangulate1665
instranglea1670
to choke back, down, in, out1690
to nip or crush in the bud1746
spiflicate1749
squasha1777
to get under1799
burke1835
to stamp out1851
to trample down1853
quelch1864
to sit upon ——1864
squelch1864
smash1865
garrotte1878
scotch1888
douse1916
to drive under1920
stomp1936
stultify1958
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 560 All flames þe flode..And þan ouer-qwelmys in a qwirre & qwatis euer e-like.
1589 R. Greene Ciceronis Amor 41 Hir resolution..quatted the conceit of his former hope.
1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late ii. sig. D The renowme of her chastitie..almost quatted those sparkes that heated him on to such lawlesse affection.
1615 R. Loder Farm Accts. (1936) 109 Very thine & pore wheat by reason that they were quatted with wet.
1850 J. Collins List Words Gower Dial. Glamorganshire in Proc. Philol. Soc. 4 253 Quat, to press down, flatten.
1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. Quat, qwot,..to flatten, to squash flat.
a1903 W. C. Plenderleath in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 671/1 [Wiltshire] He sat down on his hat and quat it.
1999 D. Parry Gram. & Gloss. Conservative Anglo-Welsh Dial. Rural Wales 178/1 Quat,..to remove, beat down. as in quat the plim ‘get rid of the dust’, said of the action of rain on a dry muddy road.
3. transitive. To satiate, satisfy, fill up. Perhaps attested earlier in over-quat v.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > eat or drink to excess [verb (transitive)] > feed (oneself) to excess
over-quatc1275
glutc1315
fill1340
stuffa1400
aglutc1400
agroten1440
grotenc1440
ingrotenc1440
sorporrc1440
replenisha1450
pegc1450
quatc1450
overgorgea1475
gorge1486
burst1530
cloy1530
saturate1538
enfarce1543
mast?1550
engluta1568
gull1582
ingurgitate1583
stall1583
forage1593
paunch1597
upbray1598
upbraid1599
surfeitc1600
surcharge1603
gormandize1604
overfeed1609
farcinate1634
repletiate1638
stodge1854
c1450 (?a1400) Parl. Thre Ages (BL Add. 31042) 234 (MED) He quyrres thaym and quotes [v.r. whotes] thaym, quyppeys full lowde.
1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 7 To the stomacke quatted with daynties, all delycates seeme quesie.
1606 J. Hind Eliosto Libidinoso 58 Amazias having quatted the quesy stomaks of the rebels..returned with safety to Famagosta.
1673 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 74 Quotted: Suff. Cloyed, glutted.
1853 W. D. Cooper Gloss. Provincialisms Sussex (ed. 2) 68 I have eaten so much that I am quite quotted.
a1895 in R. Wight Horæ Subsecivæ (MS Bodl. Eng. lang. d.66) 351 (margin) [Devon] To quott a pig.

Derivatives

† quatting n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1757 S. Foote Author ii. 29 Cape You fly o'er Hedge and Stile, I pursue for many a Mile, You grow tir'd at last, and quat, Then I catch you, and all that... Mrs. Cad. Begin and start me, that I may come the sooner to quatting.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

quatv.2

Brit. /kwat/, U.S. /kwæt/, Scottish English /kwat/, Irish English /kwæt/
Forms: Scottish pre-1700 quait, pre-1700 quatte, pre-1700 1700s quate, pre-1700 1700s quatt, pre-1700 1700s– quat; English regional (Northumberland) 1800s– quot.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: English quat , quit v.
Etymology: Inferred < quat, quatt, quait, etc., variants of past tense of quit v. (compare forms at that entry).
Originally and chiefly Scottish.
†1. transitive. To repay; to discharge by payment. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > owe [verb (transitive)] > repay debt
repay1439
to pay back1598
quata1600
a1600 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems xlv. 27 Alace! suld my treu service thus be quated? [rhyme hated].
1871 P. H. Waddell Psalms frae Hebrew cxxxvii. 8 Blythe be the wight that sal quat ye right, wi' sic-like as ye gar'd us dree.
2. transitive. To give up, relinquish; to leave, forsake; to cease, desist from. Also intransitive with with. Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records this sense as still in use in the Northern Isles, central, southern, and south-western Scotland, and Ulster in 1967.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)]
aswikec975
linOE
beleavec1175
forletc1175
i-swikec1175
restc1175
stutte?c1225
lina1300
blinc1314
to give overc1325
to do wayc1350
stintc1366
finisha1375
leavea1375
yleavec1380
to leave offa1382
refuse1389
ceasec1410
resigna1413
respite?a1439
relinquish1454
surcease1464
discontinue1474
unfill1486
supersede1499
desist1509
to have ado?1515
stop1525
to lay aside1530
stay1538
quata1614
to lay away1628
sist1635
quita1642
to throw up1645
to lay by1709
to come off1715
unbuckle1736
peter1753
to knock off1767
stash1794
estop1796
stow1806
cheese1811
to chuck itc1879
douse1887
nark1889
to stop off1891
stay1894
sling1902
can1906
to lay off1908
to pack in1934
to pack up1934
to turn in1938
to break down1941
to tie a can to (or on)1942
to jack in1948
to wrap it up1949
a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 9 I wald haiff bein forcit to quait the blok againe, and left the purchas.
1654 in D. Thomson Dunfermline Hammermen (1909) 73 The quhilk seat [in the church] the said James Beveridge..did quat and overgive the same to the said session.
1688 in M. Wood & H. Armet Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1954) XI. 243 The proprietars..may be obstinat and unwilling to quatt with the houses or closses without exacting upon the toun.
1714 A. Ramsay Elegy John Cowper (1877) I. xii. 168 To quat the grip he was right laith.
1786 R. Burns Poems 78 I shall say nae mair, But quat my sang.
1790 A. Wilson Poems 184 My friends, for G–d sake! quat yer wark.
1836 M. Mackintosh Cottager's Daughter 49 For your threats ae truth I winna quat.
1883 J. Kennedy Poems 121 Stanes an' besoms I'll abandon—Quat the curling evermair.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words at Quot ‘Quot yor had’—let go your hold.
1904 I. F. Darling Songs 39 Rise, man, Tam, ye feckless loon! Quat yer faither's chair.
1920 C. Murray Country Places 36 When ye aince start in ye maun never quat it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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