quitch (third-person singular simple present quitches, present participle quitching, simple past and past participle quitched)
(transitive, obsolete) To shake (something); to stir, move. [8th-13th c.]
(intransitive, now UK, regional) To stir; to move. [from 13th c.]
(intransitive) To flinch; shrink.
quitch (uncountable)
Elymus repens, couch grass (a species of grass, often considered a weed)
Source: Wiktionary
Quitch, n.
1. (Bot.)
Definition: Same as Quitch grass.
2. Figuratively: A vice; a taint; an evil. To pick the vicious quitch Of blood and custom wholly out of him. Tennyson .
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 January 2025
(noun) the study of the whorls and loops and arches in the fingertips and on the palms of the hand and the soles of the feet; “some criminologists specialize in dermatoglyphics”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
