Word Study
quitch
CIDE DICTIONARY
quitch, n.
- Same as Quitch grass. [1913 Webster]
- Figuratively: A vice; a taint; an evil. [1913 Webster]"To pick the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
quitch, n. (in full quitch-grass) = COUCH(2).
Etymology
OE cwice, perh. rel. to QUICK
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