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Definition of Quatch
1. a. Squat; flat.
Definition of Quatch
1. to stir or move [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quatch
Literary usage of Quatch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"... the pin-buttock,.the quatch-buttock, the brawn-hut lock, or any buttock.
All't ¡F., ü, 2. Rabelais shows that it might be applied to anything in very ..."
2. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"Noe ; not a quatch, sad poets ; doubt you There is not greife enough without you ?
Bp. Corbet, Elegy on Death of Q. Anne. ..."
3. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"quatch, adj. (old).—Flat. 1598. ... Like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks;
the pin-buttock, the quatch- buttock, ... or any buttock. QUATRO, adj. ..."
4. Lean's Collectanea by Vincent Stuckey Lean, Julia Lucy Woodward (1903)
"(Berkshire) Hll. No, not a quatch, sad poets; doubt you There is not grief enough
without you ? Bishop Corbet, Elegy on Death of Queen Anne. QUILLET, 5. ..."
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