queachn.

Brit.

/kwiːtʃ/, U.S.

/kwitʃ/

Forms: late Middle English quech, late Middle English queche, 1500s queache, 1500s– queach, 1600s queich, 1800s queech (English regional (south-eastern)).

Origin: Of uncertain origin.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Compare queachy adj. Perhaps related to quick adj. or quitch n.¹It is uncertain whether in some early examples the sense might not be more specifically ‘thicket in an area of boggy ground’; compare queachy adj. 1. Apparently attested earlier in place names, as Thirsqueche (Northamptonshire, 1292), La queche (Worcestershire, 1307), Quechefen (Northamptonshire, 1330), and earlier (in a form apparently showing rounding of the vowel) Cocheworth (Sussex, 1265).

Now chiefly English regional.

A dense growth of bushes; a thicket. Also (in quots. 1726, a1825): a patch of untillable land characterized by such thickets.

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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > thicket, brake, or brush

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thicketa1000

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greavec1050

wood-shawc1275

boscagec1400

greenwood shawc1405

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brakec1440

shaw of wood1462

queach1486

bush1523

tuft1555

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bocage1644

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thicket-maze1813

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rush1822

puckerbrush1867

1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. di When ye come to a wode or a quech of bushus.

a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 540 (MED) They com in to a thikke queche in a depe valey.

1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis i. f. 2^v Their houses were the thyckes, And bushie queaches.

1596 E. Coote Eng. Schoole-maister C2^v As I went through the castl yard, I did chaunce to stumbl in a queach of brambls.

1653 W. Denny Pelecanicidium iii. ix. 7 Through furzie Queaches thou must goe.

1726 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 3) Queach, a thick bushy Plot of Ground, a Place full of Shrubs or Brambles.

1818 L. Hunt Foliage p. ix Wood, copse, or queach.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Queach, a plat of ground adjoining arable land, and left unploughed, because full of bushes or roots of trees.

1897 ‘F. H. Williams’ Matin Bells 386 Where through queaches wild and reaches Roam the butterfly and bee.

1929 New Eng. Q. 2 385 ‘Queach’, a thicket.

1960 A. O. D. Claxton Suffolk Dial. 20th Cent. (ed. 2) 63 Queach, a small plantation of trees or bushes.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	queach
释义	queachn. Brit. /kwiːtʃ/, U.S. /kwitʃ/ Forms: late Middle English quech, late Middle English queche, 1500s queache, 1500s– queach, 1600s queich, 1800s queech (English regional (south-eastern)). Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Compare queachy adj. Perhaps related to quick adj. or quitch n.¹It is uncertain whether in some early examples the sense might not be more specifically ‘thicket in an area of boggy ground’; compare queachy adj. 1. Apparently attested earlier in place names, as Thirsqueche (Northamptonshire, 1292), La queche (Worcestershire, 1307), Quechefen (Northamptonshire, 1330), and earlier (in a form apparently showing rounding of the vowel) Cocheworth (Sussex, 1265). Now chiefly English regional. A dense growth of bushes; a thicket. Also (in quots. 1726, a1825): a patch of untillable land characterized by such thickets. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > thicket, brake, or brush shaw755 thicketa1000 thyvela1000 greavec1050 wood-shawc1275 boscagec1400 greenwood shawc1405 thickc1430 brakec1440 shaw of wood1462 queach1486 bush1523 tuft1555 bushment1587 bocage1644 cripple1675 virgult1736 bluffc1752 thick-set1766 sylvagea1774 thicket-maze1813 bosk1815 woodlet1821 rush1822 puckerbrush1867 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. di When ye come to a wode or a quech of bushus. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 540 (MED) They com in to a thikke queche in a depe valey. 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis i. f. 2^v Their houses were the thyckes, And bushie queaches. 1596 E. Coote Eng. Schoole-maister C2^v As I went through the castl yard, I did chaunce to stumbl in a queach of brambls. 1653 W. Denny Pelecanicidium iii. ix. 7 Through furzie Queaches thou must goe. 1726 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 3) Queach, a thick bushy Plot of Ground, a Place full of Shrubs or Brambles. 1818 L. Hunt Foliage p. ix Wood, copse, or queach. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Queach, a plat of ground adjoining arable land, and left unploughed, because full of bushes or roots of trees. 1897 ‘F. H. Williams’ Matin Bells 386 Where through queaches wild and reaches Roam the butterfly and bee. 1929 New Eng. Q. 2 385 ‘Queach’, a thicket. 1960 A. O. D. Claxton Suffolk Dial. 20th Cent. (ed. 2) 63 Queach, a small plantation of trees or bushes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1486
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