† quilletn.¹

Forms: Middle English quilet, 1800s quillet.

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: quill n.¹, -et suffix¹.

Etymology: Apparently < quill n.¹ (although this is first attested later) + -et suffix¹.

Obsolete.

A small quill; a tubular object of this kind.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > feather > [noun] > little feather

quillet1348

plumule1782

featherlet1834

plumelet1850

featheret1882

1348 Acct. (P.R.O.: E 101/470/18) m. 1 In j quilet de Laton' empt' et posit' in ore cuiusdam Leopardi facti de petr'..fundente aquam in Cisterna ibidem.

1872 C. M. Yonge P's & Q's ix. 95 Rolling up her papers into little quillets.

1876 R. D. Blackmore Cripps II. xiv. 211 Sprays, that..held in every downy quillet liquid, rather than solid, gem.

1879 Daily Tel. 29 May As many codicils as there are paper quillets to a schoolboy's kite.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

quilletn.²

Brit.

/ˈkwɪlᵻt/, U.S.

/ˈkwɪlᵻt/

Forms: 1500s coylett, 1500s quyllett, 1500s–1600s (1800s– English regional) quillett, 1500s– quillet, 1600s quillit, 1800s– quellat (English regional (Cornwall)), 1900s– guillet (English regional (Somerset)).

Origin: Of unknown origin.

Etymology: Origin unknown.Perhaps compare Middle English quilet (also quelet , quylet , coillet , coylthe ) possessions, property, gathering (of people), assembly, collection (ultimately < post-classical Latin collecta collect n., via Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French): see Middle Eng. Dict. s.v. quilet.

Now English regional (chiefly south-western).

1. A small plot or narrow strip of land.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > narrow strip of land

swathc1325

runrig1437

raina1450

selionc1450

rundale1474

quillet1533

rig length1616

plank1631

narrow land1640

rap1710

run-ridge1741

rean1781

slinget1790

slip1837

1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 13 §10 No maner person..shall take in ferme..any quillettes of landes or pastures.

1572 Will 6 Aug. in F. G. Emmison Elizabethan Life (1978) (modernized text) IV. 95 I am possessed of a lease of the manor of Mundon with the rectory and tithes and other leases of quillets and lands.

a1631 R. Cotton Abstr. Rec. Tower (1642) 14 For no man will buy quillets but in soccage.

a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) I. 151 Reducinge his scattered quillets of ground togeather into entire enclosures.

1774 T. West Antiq. Furness p. xlv The abbots of Furness permitted the inhabitants to enclose quillets to their houses.

1777 J. Nicolson & R. Burn Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland II. 184 The same lands..shall not be delivered..in any such small quillets and parcels.

1824 R. Heber Jrnl. 9 Aug. in Narr. Journey Upper Provinces India (1828) I. ix. 203 Each quillet..had its little stage and shed for the watchman.

1888 Archaeol. Rev. Mar. 17 The fields..in North Wales are still, in many cases, divided into..‘quillets’, that is to say, into open strips marked off from each other merely by boundary stones.

1947 A. Young Green Man 27 Flowers from their quiet quillets pass To mix with wayside weeds and grass.

1999 Guardian 31 Mar. i. 18/5 In quillets, set above the sea near Lamorna, jonquil, empress and princep narcissi flower.

†2. A hamlet. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > village > [noun] > small village or hamlet

towneOE

hamletc1330

hamelc1514

endware1577

endship1590

quillet1597

flect1637

peasantship1762

villaget1781

1597–8 Act 39 Eliz. c. 25 The sayde Hundred doth consiste onely of five small villages and thre small Quyllettes or Hamlettes.

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

quilletn.³

Brit.

/ˈkwɪlᵻt/, U.S.

/ˈkwɪlᵻt/

Forms: 1500s quilet, 1500s–1800s quillit, 1500s– quillet, 1600s quilit.

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: quillity n.¹

Etymology: Apparently shortened < quillity n.¹ Compare later quiddit n., quibble n. Compare also earlier quiddity n., quib n., quippy n., quip n.

A verbal nicety, a subtle distinction; a frivolous or evasive argument; a quibble. Cf. quirk n.¹ 1a, 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > trivial argument, quibble > [noun]

quiddity1539

quibc1540

quibibec1540

quirk1565

quillity1573

quid1576

quillet1576

quipa1592

quiddit1592

quidlit1598

quibibble1606

punctual1610

quidlibet1611

catasophistrya1614

quibbling1633

Scotism1645

quibble1650

thingum1672

quoddity1682

scruple1713

baffle1783

nit1982

1576 G. Whetstone Ortchard of Repentance 22 in Rocke of Regard Eche quillet nyse, see that you neerely note, In paper booke.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 286 Some tricks, some quillets, how to cheate the diuell.

1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxx. iv. 386 Linking and entangling causes with insoluble quirkes and quilits.

1683 E. Hooker in J. Pordage Theologia Mystica Pref. Epist. 15 What shal wee sai..of..Railleries and Drolleries, Quirks and Quillets, Trics and Trangams, Kniff-knaffs, Bimboms, &c.?

1708 Brit. Apollo 6–8 Oct. Like Ignoramus, For Quillets most famous.

1712 F. Gordon Ess. Predestination & Grace 18 He calls them vain..who by Quirkes and Quillets shall Endeavour to deprive the Soul of Man, of its Freedom.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ix, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 262 Sharp-eyed as a lynx..in the nice sharp quillits of legal discussion.

1859 Directory Borough of Chester 1859–60 21 The West Chester wags contenting themselves with newspaper squibs, quillets of wit, and lampoons.

1890 J. H. Stirling Gifford Lect. viii. 153 The word is too unequivocal for any quillet to be hung upon it.

1927 Dict. National Biogr. 1912–21 476/2 A barrister at home in the courts and in the purlieus and quillets of the law.

1993 Church Times 10 Dec. 9/3 Problems of priorities, budgets..and the legal quillets bedevilling the creation of a memorandum and articles of association.

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

† quilletv.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: quillet n.³

Etymology: < quillet n.³

Obsolete. rare.

intransitive. To quibble. Cf. quillet n.³

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > trivial argument, quibble > quibble, equivocate [verb (intransitive)]

quillet1653

quibble1655

baffle1656

chicane1705

pettifogulize1851

pettifogc1867

quib1918

1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius War with Vandals i. 25 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian It is inconvenient for men in hazard for the main, to quillet about the rest.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

n.¹1348

n.²1533

n.³1576

v.1653

单词	quillet
释义	† quilletn.¹ Forms: Middle English quilet, 1800s quillet. Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: quill n.¹, -et suffix¹. Etymology: Apparently < quill n.¹ (although this is first attested later) + -et suffix¹. Obsolete. A small quill; a tubular object of this kind. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > feather > [noun] > little feather quillet1348 plumule1782 featherlet1834 plumelet1850 featheret1882 1348 Acct. (P.R.O.: E 101/470/18) m. 1 In j quilet de Laton' empt' et posit' in ore cuiusdam Leopardi facti de petr'..fundente aquam in Cisterna ibidem. 1872 C. M. Yonge P's & Q's ix. 95 Rolling up her papers into little quillets. 1876 R. D. Blackmore Cripps II. xiv. 211 Sprays, that..held in every downy quillet liquid, rather than solid, gem. 1879 Daily Tel. 29 May As many codicils as there are paper quillets to a schoolboy's kite. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020). quilletn.² Brit. /ˈkwɪlᵻt/, U.S. /ˈkwɪlᵻt/ Forms: 1500s coylett, 1500s quyllett, 1500s–1600s (1800s– English regional) quillett, 1500s– quillet, 1600s quillit, 1800s– quellat (English regional (Cornwall)), 1900s– guillet (English regional (Somerset)). Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown.Perhaps compare Middle English quilet (also quelet , quylet , coillet , coylthe ) possessions, property, gathering (of people), assembly, collection (ultimately < post-classical Latin collecta collect n., via Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French): see Middle Eng. Dict. s.v. quilet. Now English regional (chiefly south-western). 1. A small plot or narrow strip of land. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > narrow strip of land swathc1325 runrig1437 raina1450 selionc1450 rundale1474 quillet1533 rig length1616 plank1631 narrow land1640 rap1710 run-ridge1741 rean1781 slinget1790 slip1837 1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 13 §10 No maner person..shall take in ferme..any quillettes of landes or pastures. 1572 Will 6 Aug. in F. G. Emmison Elizabethan Life (1978) (modernized text) IV. 95 I am possessed of a lease of the manor of Mundon with the rectory and tithes and other leases of quillets and lands. a1631 R. Cotton Abstr. Rec. Tower (1642) 14 For no man will buy quillets but in soccage. a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) I. 151 Reducinge his scattered quillets of ground togeather into entire enclosures. 1774 T. West Antiq. Furness p. xlv The abbots of Furness permitted the inhabitants to enclose quillets to their houses. 1777 J. Nicolson & R. Burn Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland II. 184 The same lands..shall not be delivered..in any such small quillets and parcels. 1824 R. Heber Jrnl. 9 Aug. in Narr. Journey Upper Provinces India (1828) I. ix. 203 Each quillet..had its little stage and shed for the watchman. 1888 Archaeol. Rev. Mar. 17 The fields..in North Wales are still, in many cases, divided into..‘quillets’, that is to say, into open strips marked off from each other merely by boundary stones. 1947 A. Young Green Man 27 Flowers from their quiet quillets pass To mix with wayside weeds and grass. 1999 Guardian 31 Mar. i. 18/5 In quillets, set above the sea near Lamorna, jonquil, empress and princep narcissi flower. †2. A hamlet. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > village > [noun] > small village or hamlet towneOE hamletc1330 hamelc1514 endware1577 endship1590 quillet1597 flect1637 peasantship1762 villaget1781 1597–8 Act 39 Eliz. c. 25 The sayde Hundred doth consiste onely of five small villages and thre small Quyllettes or Hamlettes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). quilletn.³ Brit. /ˈkwɪlᵻt/, U.S. /ˈkwɪlᵻt/ Forms: 1500s quilet, 1500s–1800s quillit, 1500s– quillet, 1600s quilit. Origin: Apparently formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: quillity n.¹ Etymology: Apparently shortened < quillity n.¹ Compare later quiddit n., quibble n. Compare also earlier quiddity n., quib n., quippy n., quip n. A verbal nicety, a subtle distinction; a frivolous or evasive argument; a quibble. Cf. quirk n.¹ 1a, 1b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > trivial argument, quibble > [noun] quiddity1539 quibc1540 quibibec1540 quirk1565 quillity1573 quid1576 quillet1576 quipa1592 quiddit1592 quidlit1598 quibibble1606 punctual1610 quidlibet1611 catasophistrya1614 quibbling1633 Scotism1645 quibble1650 thingum1672 quoddity1682 scruple1713 baffle1783 nit1982 1576 G. Whetstone Ortchard of Repentance 22 in Rocke of Regard Eche quillet nyse, see that you neerely note, In paper booke. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 286 Some tricks, some quillets, how to cheate the diuell. View more context for this quotation 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxx. iv. 386 Linking and entangling causes with insoluble quirkes and quilits. 1683 E. Hooker in J. Pordage Theologia Mystica Pref. Epist. 15 What shal wee sai..of..Railleries and Drolleries, Quirks and Quillets, Trics and Trangams, Kniff-knaffs, Bimboms, &c.? 1708 Brit. Apollo 6–8 Oct. Like Ignoramus, For Quillets most famous. 1712 F. Gordon Ess. Predestination & Grace 18 He calls them vain..who by Quirkes and Quillets shall Endeavour to deprive the Soul of Man, of its Freedom. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ix, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 262 Sharp-eyed as a lynx..in the nice sharp quillits of legal discussion. 1859 Directory Borough of Chester 1859–60 21 The West Chester wags contenting themselves with newspaper squibs, quillets of wit, and lampoons. 1890 J. H. Stirling Gifford Lect. viii. 153 The word is too unequivocal for any quillet to be hung upon it. 1927 Dict. National Biogr. 1912–21 476/2 A barrister at home in the courts and in the purlieus and quillets of the law. 1993 Church Times 10 Dec. 9/3 Problems of priorities, budgets..and the legal quillets bedevilling the creation of a memorandum and articles of association. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † quilletv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: quillet n.³ Etymology: < quillet n.³ Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To quibble. Cf. quillet n.³ ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > trivial argument, quibble > quibble, equivocate [verb (intransitive)] quillet1653 quibble1655 baffle1656 chicane1705 pettifogulize1851 pettifogc1867 quib1918 1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius War with Vandals i. 25 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian It is inconvenient for men in hazard for the main, to quillet about the rest. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.¹1348n.²1533n.³1576v.1653
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