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squitch
▪ I. squitch, n. (skwɪtʃ) [Altered form of quitch n.1 See also scutch n.3] 1. Couch-grass, Triticum repens; = couch n. 2.1785 Young's Annals Agric. IV. 415 A small close,..fuller I think of squitch than any field I had ever seen before. 1805 Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 564 Couch, or what in many distri...
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Slough of Despond
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The "Slough of Despond" may have been inspired by Squitch Fen, a wet and marshy area near his cottage in Harrowden, Bedfordshire
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scutch
▪ I. scutch, n.1 Now chiefly dial. (skʌtʃ) [f. scutch v.] A stroke with a stick or whip.1611 Cotgr., Fessée, a scutch on the breech, a lash on the buttocks. Ibid., Singlet, a scutch,..or ierke with a rod, &c.▪ II. scutch, n.2 (skʌtʃ) Also 8 skutch, 9 scotch. [a. OF. escouche (15th c.; mod.F. écouche...
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quack-belly
▪ I. quack, n.1 (kwæk) Also 7 quacke. [Abbrev. of quacksalver.] 1. a. An ignorant pretender to medical or surgical skill; one who boasts to have a knowledge of wonderful remedies; an empiric or impostor in medicine. = charlatan 2.1659 T. Pecke Parnassi Puerp. 145 Sir Quack his Patient told, nothing ...
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spear-grass
ˈspear-grass Also speargrass, spear grass. [f. spear n.1] † 1. = spearwort 3. Obs.1548 Turner Names Herbes (E.D.S.) 84 Flamula is the herbe whiche we cal in englishe Sperewurte or spergrasse. 1579 T. Lupton Notable Things iii. §91 (1660) 48 Whosoever is tormented with the Sciatica or the Gout, let t...
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couch
▪ I. couch, n.1 (kaʊtʃ) Forms: 4–6 couche, cowch(e, (5 kouche, cuche, 6 choche, cooch, 7 coutch), 7– couch. [a. F. couche (13th c.), earlier OF. culche, f. coucher: see couch v.1] 1. a. A frame or structure, with what is spread over it (or simply a layer of some soft substance), on which to lie down...
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switch
▪ I. switch, n. (swɪtʃ) Also 7 swits, swytche, swich. [In branch I.: early forms swits, switz (see next); prob. ad. Flem. or LG. word represented by Hanoverian swutsche, variant of LG. zwukse long thin stick, switch (cf. zwuksen to bend up and down, also, to make a swishing noise like a lash). In br...
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