quitch

Meanings

Verb

• To shake (something); to stir, move.
• To stir; to move.
• To flinch; shrink.

Noun

• Elymus repens, couch grass

Origin

• From Middle English quicchen, quytchen, quecchen, from Old English cweċċan ("to shake, swing, move, vibrate, shake off, give up"), from Proto-Germanic *kwakjaną ("to shake, swing"), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷog- ("to shake, swing"). Related to Old English cwacian ("to quake"). More at quake.
• From Middle English quicche, from Old English cwice. Cognate with German Quecke, Dutch kweek, Middle Low German kweke.