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Definition of quoth in English: quothverb kwəʊθkwoʊθ humorous, archaic with direct speech Said (used only in first and third person singular before the subject) ‘Ah,’ quoth he, as soon as the bike started, ‘a blown cylinder head gasket.’ Example sentencesExamples - Merriam-Webster online doth quoth: ‘A geek used to be a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake.’
- Any port in a storm, quoth the sailors, even if it's a Port-O-Potty.
- Seabass miso-yaki - marinated for three days in miso and brown sugar, quoth our waiter - never quite rose above its excellent garlic mashed potatoes and dots of racy passionfruit purée.
- As a result, it saddens me to have to resort to this, but ‘desperate times require desperate measures for measure’, quoth The Bard, or someone else a bit like him who's equally famous.
Origin Middle English: past tense of obsolete quethe 'say, declare', of Germanic origin. bequeath from Old English: The Old English form becwethan is composed of be- ‘about’ and cwethan ‘say’; the related bequest is Middle English, both reflecting a time when wills were often spoken rather than written. Quoth, an old term for ‘he/she said’ also comes from cwethan.
Rhymes both, growth, loath, oath, sloth, Thoth, troth Definition of quoth in US English: quothverbkwōTHkwoʊθ humorous, archaic with direct speech Said (used only in first and third person singular before the subject) “Well, the tide is going out” quoth the sailor Example sentencesExamples - Merriam-Webster online doth quoth: ‘A geek used to be a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake.’
- As a result, it saddens me to have to resort to this, but ‘desperate times require desperate measures for measure’, quoth The Bard, or someone else a bit like him who's equally famous.
- Seabass miso-yaki - marinated for three days in miso and brown sugar, quoth our waiter - never quite rose above its excellent garlic mashed potatoes and dots of racy passionfruit purée.
- Any port in a storm, quoth the sailors, even if it's a Port-O-Potty.
Origin Middle English: past tense of obsolete quethe ‘say, declare’, of Germanic origin. |