queest
/kwiːst/Now English regional (west midlands and south-western ), Welsh English, and Irish English
noun
The wood pigeon, Columba palumbus. Formerly also †queest-dove.
Origin
Late Middle English; earliest use found in Palladius' De Re Rustica. Apparently a variant of cushat, with elision of the vowel of the second syllable.
- full professorship
- full ride
- full-rigged
- full-scale
- full score
- full-service broker
- full-service brokerage
- full sister
- full-size
- full-sized
- full steam (or speed) ahead
- full stop
- full term
- full-throated
- full-time
- full time
- full-timer
- full-toned
- full to overflowing
- full toss
- full to the brim
- full up to dolly's wax
- fully
- -fully
- fully fashioned