quetchv.

Brit.

/kwɛtʃ/, U.S.

/kwɛtʃ/

Forms:

α. early Old English cueccan, Old English cweccan, late Old English cwecgan, early Middle English cweche, Middle English quecche, Middle English queche, Middle English qwessh, 1500s queatche, 1500s queech, 1500s–1600s quech, 1500s–1600s (1900s– historical) quetch, 1600s queatch.

β. late Middle English quiche, late Middle English quycche, late Middle English qvycche, late Middle English qvyhche, late Middle English qvytche, late Middle English qwyche, late Middle English–1500s quyche, 1500s quytch, 1500s quytche, 1500s–1600s quich, 1500s–1600s quitch, 1800s– quitchy (English regional (Somerset)).

γ. 1500s–1600s (1800s– English regional (midlands)) quatch.

Past tense

α. Old English–early Middle English cwehte, late Old English cwahte, early Middle English cuahte, early Middle English cwæhte, Middle English quaȝte, Middle English quahte, Middle English quehte, Middle English queiȝte, Middle English queiȝtte, Middle English queite, 1600s quecht.

β. early Middle English cwic, early Middle English cwich, early Middle English quic.

γ. Middle English quycched, 1500s quitched, 1500s–1600s quetched, 1600s quitcht.

δ. 1600s quatched.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Apparently a causative formation < the same Germanic base as quake v.¹ Compare Old Saxon queki-līk (adjective) quivering.In Old English the prefixed form gecweccan to shake, brandish (compare y- prefix) is also attested. Compare also acweccan aquetch v. In quot. c1225 at sense 2b the form cwich may show an imperative rather than a past tense form.

†1. transitive. To shake or brandish (an object). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten (evil, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > move or exhibit threateningly

quetcheOE

brandishc1400

show1833

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or thrust with sword > strike with sword [verb (transitive)] > (draw and) brandish

quetcheOE

swackc1425

vibrate1634

flash1801

outflourish1871

eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) vii. 12 (13) Nisi conuertamini, gladium suum uibrabit : nemne ge sien gecerde sweord his cweceð.

OE Beowulf (2008) 235 Gewat him þa to waroðe wicge ridan þegn Hroðgares, þrymmum cwehte mægenwudu mundum.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 11930 Heo quehten [c1300 cwehten] heore scaftes.

†a. transitive. To shake (the head or hands). Obsolete.

ΚΠ

OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 200 Þa cwehte se dema his deoflice heafod, and het hi gebringan on anum blindum cwearterne.

OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 276 Þa ætstod þæt swurd and þone swuran ne hrepode, ac þam cwellere ætfeoll færlice his gold, þaþa he swa hetelice his handa cwehte.

OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxvii. 39 Witodlice þa wegferendan hyne bysmeredon & cwehton [c1200 Hatton cwæhton] heora heafod.

b. intransitive. To move the body or any part of it; to stir; (in later use) esp. to shrink, wince, twitch. Usually in negative contexts. Now English regional.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > bodily movement > move the body or a member [verb (intransitive)]

quetchc1225

movea1325

the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > be painful [verb (intransitive)] > express pain

grinOE

quetchc1225

singc1386

quinch1511

complain1600

flincha1677

c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Bodl.) (1981) 640 (MED) Nan ne seide nawiht, ah seten stille as stan; cwich ne cweð þer neauer an.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 12898 Þa fond he þer ane quene quecchen mid hafde.

c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 9051 (MED) Þe stede he smot, þat it queiȝte Of a geaunt a launce he pliȝt; To king Rion he gan ride.

c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 6160 (MED) He smot Ector..But Ector..Noght In his sadel ones Icched, Noght for that ones he quycched.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 421 Qvycchyn, or mevyn, moveo.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 677/2 I quytche, I styrre or move with my bodye.

1603 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues (new ed.) 708 He..neuer stirred hand nor foot, nor quitched when the fire tooke him.

1636 D. Featley Clavis Mystica iii. 33 He who suffereth all this, quatcheth not, stirreth not.

a1664 M. Frank LI Serm. (1672) 147 To..look up stedfastly still, not quich aside.

1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. I. 253 I have seen men..that would neither cry out, wince nor quitch, for a good swinging beating.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Quitchy, to twitch; to make sudden, involuntary movements.

c. intransitive. To utter a sound. Usually in negative contexts. Also with against, at. Now English regional.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)]

matheleOE

speakc888

spellc888

yedc888

i-quethec900

reirdOE

meldOE

meleOE

quidOE

i-meleOE

wordOE

to open one's mouth (also lips)OE

mootOE

spellc1175

carpa1240

spilec1275

bespeakc1314

adda1382

mella1400

moutha1400

utter?a1400

lalec1400

nurnc1400

parlec1400

talkc1400

to say forthc1405

rekea1450

to say on1487

nevena1500

quinch1511

quetch1530

queckc1540

walk1550

cant1567

twang1602

articulate1615

tella1616

betalk1622

sermocinate1623

to give tongue1737

jaw1748

to break stillness1768

outspeaka1788

to give mouth1854

larum1877

to make noises1909

verbal1974

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 601 She layde upon him lyke a mantle sacke and the poore boye durste nat ones quytche [Fr. nosa pas tynter].

1531 W. Tyndale Expos. Fyrste Epist. St. Jhon sig. B.vii^v Thys doothe Paule..so conferme that all the world can not quitch against it.

1628 J. Clavell Recantation of Ill Led Life 45 Durst neuer quatch, Whil'st we before their faces all; did catch,... When we were gone (perhaps) then would they cry Theefes, theefes.

1657 W. Morice Coena quasi Κοινὴ Def. xvi. 256 To snatch their mouths full of earth, that they might not be heard to quetch or groan.

1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 159 I will speak alwayes with so Magisterial a confidence, that no modest man..shall so much as quetch at me.

1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Quatch,..to betray, to tell... Oxf.

1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases [? Not to] Quatch, to keep absolute silence as regards a certain subject.

†3. intransitive. Of a thing: to shake, tremble. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > vibrate [verb (intransitive)] > shake

quakeeOE

bivec888

shakec950

reseOE

aquetcha1000

divera1225

quavec1225

quetchc1275

squetchc1330

tremblec1374

waga1398

roga1400

shaga1400

quashc1400

shatter1533

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 10050 Þa eorðe aȝæn quehte [c1300 Othocwehte].

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 13436 Quahten [c1300 Otho setten] on hafden helmes heȝen.

c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 607 (MED) So sterne strokes þay arauȝte..þat al þe erthe þer-of quaȝte.

†4.

a. intransitive. To stir or move from one place to another; to go, run, hasten. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > move about from place to place

quetchc1275

locomote1831

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 2272 Þet is þere quene scip, þe us bi-foren queccheð [c1300 Otho cwecheþ].

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 415 Ne lete ȝe nenne quick quecchen [c1300 scapie] to holte.

a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 4344 (MED) Þat werwolf..queite toward þe quene, to quelle hire as bliue.

b. transitive. To drive, chase. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)] > pursue enemy

quetchc1275

chasec1330

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 15712 Hiȝendliche he heom quehte ouer þere Humbre.

c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 2981 (MED) Our barouns hem gun chace..So harde hy hem þanne quaȝte..þat þe moste part of hem hy caȝte.

†5. intransitive to dare not (so much as) quetch: (a) (with against, upon) to dare not make a move against, attack, or oppose; (b) to dare not move or make a sound. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 4738 (MED) He..makeþ pes maugre to eche; Dar noman aȝein hym queche.

c1460 Tree & 12 Frutes (McClean) (1960) 150 (MED) Yif þey assayle vs, þey wete wel þat þei shulle be lightli ouercome, so þat þey durre not onys qwessh [v.rr. quycche, quyche] vpon vs.

1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) ix. viii. 358/1 Be he so solempne & so myghty, that no man dare quycche ayenst hym.

1528 in F. J. Furnivall Ballads from MSS I. 359 Thow knowyste how..mortimer, in þis lande dyd Rule & Rayne, For whom no man durste quyche.

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) v. f. 66^v The sillie Lambe that dares not stirre nor quetch when He heares the howling of the Wolfe.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 975/1 They durst not queech in his presence, but were like a sort of timorous cattell.

1638 D. Featley Stricturæ in Lyndomastygem i.110 in H. Lynde Case for Spectacles A most learned worke, against which never a Papist yet durst quatch.

1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xix. 67 Which put them in such a fear as they durst not so much as quetch.

1699 W. Baron Just Def. Royal Martyr iii. 56 If any dar'd..so much as quetch against her Prerogative,..she never spar'd to express the height of her Resentment.

Derivatives

† quetching n. Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > [noun] > expression of pain

wringinga1375

quetching1676

pain behaviour1953

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > [noun] > spasmodic movement or twitching

twitching1478

twitch1575

sprunting1647

orgasm1671

quetching1676

catching1700

snatching1822

quirk1826

OE Lambeth Psalter xliii. 15 Posuisti nos in similitudinem gentibus commotionem capitis in populis : þu gesettest us on gelicnysse þeodum cweccunge heafdes on folcum.

a1626 L. Andrewes XCVI Serm. (1629) 789 Keepe every joynt quiet, from any the least quetching in this matter of Ne perdas.

1676 H. More Remarks 2 Disc. 94 The quitching of the skin.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	quetch
释义	quetchv. Brit. /kwɛtʃ/, U.S. /kwɛtʃ/ Forms: α. early Old English cueccan, Old English cweccan, late Old English cwecgan, early Middle English cweche, Middle English quecche, Middle English queche, Middle English qwessh, 1500s queatche, 1500s queech, 1500s–1600s quech, 1500s–1600s (1900s– historical) quetch, 1600s queatch. β. late Middle English quiche, late Middle English quycche, late Middle English qvycche, late Middle English qvyhche, late Middle English qvytche, late Middle English qwyche, late Middle English–1500s quyche, 1500s quytch, 1500s quytche, 1500s–1600s quich, 1500s–1600s quitch, 1800s– quitchy (English regional (Somerset)). γ. 1500s–1600s (1800s– English regional (midlands)) quatch. Past tense α. Old English–early Middle English cwehte, late Old English cwahte, early Middle English cuahte, early Middle English cwæhte, Middle English quaȝte, Middle English quahte, Middle English quehte, Middle English queiȝte, Middle English queiȝtte, Middle English queite, 1600s quecht. β. early Middle English cwic, early Middle English cwich, early Middle English quic. γ. Middle English quycched, 1500s quitched, 1500s–1600s quetched, 1600s quitcht. δ. 1600s quatched. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Apparently a causative formation < the same Germanic base as quake v.¹ Compare Old Saxon queki-līk (adjective) quivering.In Old English the prefixed form gecweccan to shake, brandish (compare y- prefix) is also attested. Compare also acweccan aquetch v. In quot. c1225 at sense 2b the form cwich may show an imperative rather than a past tense form. †1. transitive. To shake or brandish (an object). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten (evil, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > move or exhibit threateningly quetcheOE brandishc1400 show1833 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or thrust with sword > strike with sword [verb (transitive)] > (draw and) brandish quetcheOE swackc1425 vibrate1634 flash1801 outflourish1871 eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) vii. 12 (13) Nisi conuertamini, gladium suum uibrabit : nemne ge sien gecerde sweord his cweceð. OE Beowulf (2008) 235 Gewat him þa to waroðe wicge ridan þegn Hroðgares, þrymmum cwehte mægenwudu mundum. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 11930 Heo quehten [c1300 cwehten] heore scaftes. 2. †a. transitive. To shake (the head or hands). Obsolete. ΚΠ OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 200 Þa cwehte se dema his deoflice heafod, and het hi gebringan on anum blindum cwearterne. OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 276 Þa ætstod þæt swurd and þone swuran ne hrepode, ac þam cwellere ætfeoll færlice his gold, þaþa he swa hetelice his handa cwehte. OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxvii. 39 Witodlice þa wegferendan hyne bysmeredon & cwehton [c1200 Hatton cwæhton] heora heafod. b. intransitive. To move the body or any part of it; to stir; (in later use) esp. to shrink, wince, twitch. Usually in negative contexts. Now English regional. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > bodily movement > move the body or a member [verb (intransitive)] quetchc1225 movea1325 the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > be painful [verb (intransitive)] > express pain grinOE quetchc1225 singc1386 quinch1511 complain1600 flincha1677 c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Bodl.) (1981) 640 (MED) Nan ne seide nawiht, ah seten stille as stan; cwich ne cweð þer neauer an. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 12898 Þa fond he þer ane quene quecchen mid hafde. c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 9051 (MED) Þe stede he smot, þat it queiȝte Of a geaunt a launce he pliȝt; To king Rion he gan ride. c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 6160 (MED) He smot Ector..But Ector..Noght In his sadel ones Icched, Noght for that ones he quycched. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 421 Qvycchyn, or mevyn, moveo. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 677/2 I quytche, I styrre or move with my bodye. 1603 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues (new ed.) 708 He..neuer stirred hand nor foot, nor quitched when the fire tooke him. 1636 D. Featley Clavis Mystica iii. 33 He who suffereth all this, quatcheth not, stirreth not. a1664 M. Frank LI Serm. (1672) 147 To..look up stedfastly still, not quich aside. 1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. I. 253 I have seen men..that would neither cry out, wince nor quitch, for a good swinging beating. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Quitchy, to twitch; to make sudden, involuntary movements. c. intransitive. To utter a sound. Usually in negative contexts. Also with against, at. Now English regional. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] matheleOE speakc888 spellc888 yedc888 i-quethec900 reirdOE meldOE meleOE quidOE i-meleOE wordOE to open one's mouth (also lips)OE mootOE spellc1175 carpa1240 spilec1275 bespeakc1314 adda1382 mella1400 moutha1400 utter?a1400 lalec1400 nurnc1400 parlec1400 talkc1400 to say forthc1405 rekea1450 to say on1487 nevena1500 quinch1511 quetch1530 queckc1540 walk1550 cant1567 twang1602 articulate1615 tella1616 betalk1622 sermocinate1623 to give tongue1737 jaw1748 to break stillness1768 outspeaka1788 to give mouth1854 larum1877 to make noises1909 verbal1974 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 601 She layde upon him lyke a mantle sacke and the poore boye durste nat ones quytche [Fr. nosa pas tynter]. 1531 W. Tyndale Expos. Fyrste Epist. St. Jhon sig. B.vii^v Thys doothe Paule..so conferme that all the world can not quitch against it. 1628 J. Clavell Recantation of Ill Led Life 45 Durst neuer quatch, Whil'st we before their faces all; did catch,... When we were gone (perhaps) then would they cry Theefes, theefes. 1657 W. Morice Coena quasi Κοινὴ Def. xvi. 256 To snatch their mouths full of earth, that they might not be heard to quetch or groan. 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 159 I will speak alwayes with so Magisterial a confidence, that no modest man..shall so much as quetch at me. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Quatch,..to betray, to tell... Oxf. 1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases [? Not to] Quatch, to keep absolute silence as regards a certain subject. †3. intransitive. Of a thing: to shake, tremble. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > vibrate [verb (intransitive)] > shake quakeeOE bivec888 shakec950 reseOE aquetcha1000 divera1225 quavec1225 quetchc1275 squetchc1330 tremblec1374 waga1398 roga1400 shaga1400 quashc1400 shatter1533 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 10050 Þa eorðe aȝæn quehte [c1300 Othocwehte]. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 13436 Quahten [c1300 Otho setten] on hafden helmes heȝen. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 607 (MED) So sterne strokes þay arauȝte..þat al þe erthe þer-of quaȝte. †4. a. intransitive. To stir or move from one place to another; to go, run, hasten. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > move about from place to place quetchc1275 locomote1831 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 2272 Þet is þere quene scip, þe us bi-foren queccheð [c1300 Otho cwecheþ]. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 415 Ne lete ȝe nenne quick quecchen [c1300 scapie] to holte. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 4344 (MED) Þat werwolf..queite toward þe quene, to quelle hire as bliue. b. transitive. To drive, chase. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)] > pursue enemy quetchc1275 chasec1330 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 15712 Hiȝendliche he heom quehte ouer þere Humbre. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 2981 (MED) Our barouns hem gun chace..So harde hy hem þanne quaȝte..þat þe moste part of hem hy caȝte. †5. intransitive to dare not (so much as) quetch: (a) (with against, upon) to dare not make a move against, attack, or oppose; (b) to dare not move or make a sound. Obsolete. ΚΠ c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 4738 (MED) He..makeþ pes maugre to eche; Dar noman aȝein hym queche. c1460 Tree & 12 Frutes (McClean) (1960) 150 (MED) Yif þey assayle vs, þey wete wel þat þei shulle be lightli ouercome, so þat þey durre not onys qwessh [v.rr. quycche, quyche] vpon vs. 1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) ix. viii. 358/1 Be he so solempne & so myghty, that no man dare quycche ayenst hym. 1528 in F. J. Furnivall Ballads from MSS I. 359 Thow knowyste how..mortimer, in þis lande dyd Rule & Rayne, For whom no man durste quyche. 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) v. f. 66^v The sillie Lambe that dares not stirre nor quetch when He heares the howling of the Wolfe. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 975/1 They durst not queech in his presence, but were like a sort of timorous cattell. 1638 D. Featley Stricturæ in Lyndomastygem i.110 in H. Lynde Case for Spectacles A most learned worke, against which never a Papist yet durst quatch. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xix. 67 Which put them in such a fear as they durst not so much as quetch. 1699 W. Baron Just Def. Royal Martyr iii. 56 If any dar'd..so much as quetch against her Prerogative,..she never spar'd to express the height of her Resentment. Derivatives † quetching n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > [noun] > expression of pain wringinga1375 quetching1676 pain behaviour1953 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > [noun] > spasmodic movement or twitching twitching1478 twitch1575 sprunting1647 orgasm1671 quetching1676 catching1700 snatching1822 quirk1826 OE Lambeth Psalter xliii. 15 Posuisti nos in similitudinem gentibus commotionem capitis in populis : þu gesettest us on gelicnysse þeodum cweccunge heafdes on folcum. a1626 L. Andrewes XCVI Serm. (1629) 789 Keepe every joynt quiet, from any the least quetching in this matter of Ne perdas. 1676 H. More Remarks 2 Disc. 94 The quitching of the skin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.eOE
随便看	θ86955 θ86956 θ86957 θ86958 θ86959 θ8696 θ86960 θ86961 θ86962 θ86963 θ86964 θ86965 θ86966 θ86967 θ86968 θ8697 θ86970 θ86971 θ86972 θ86973 θ86974 θ86975 θ86976 θ86977 θ86978