▪ I. † quatch1 Obs.
[f. quatch, var. quetch v.: cf. quinch n.]
A word, a sound.
| a 1635 R. Corbet Poems (1807) 114 Noe; not a quatch, sad poets; doubt you, There is not greife enough without you? 1783 Nichols Bibl. Top. (1790) IV. 57 (Berks) A quatch is a word. (Hence in Grose and Halliwell.) |
▪ II. † quatch2 Obs. rare—1.
(Meaning uncertain.)
| 1601 Shakes. All's Well ii. ii. 18 A Barber's chaire, that fits all buttockes, the pin buttocke, the quatch-buttocke [etc.]. |
▪ III. quatch
variant of quetch.