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▪ I. † quatch1 Obs. [f. quatch, var. quetch v.: cf. quinch n.] A word, a sound.
a1635R. Corbet Poems (1807) 114 Noe; not a quatch, sad poets; doubt you, There is not greife enough without you? 1783Nichols Bibl. Top. (1790) IV. 57 (Berks) A quatch is a word. (Hence in Grose and Halliwell.) ▪ II. † quatch2 Obs. rare—1. (Meaning uncertain.)
1601Shakes. 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. |