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quitch grass

/ ɪʃ /

noun

  1. another name for couch grass Sometimes shortened toquitch
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of quitch grass1

Old English cwice; perhaps related to cwicu living, quick (with the implication that the grass cannot be killed); compare Dutch kweek, Norwegian kvike, German Queckengras
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Other enemies, like the smaller weeds, he could overcome, but injustice, that quitch grass of life, was what stung him to fury.

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The lesser ones he could sweep away at one stroke, but that quitch grass was more difficult to conquer.

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The quitch grass was thicker now, and the struggle harder.

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Antonyms: continue, persist, stay. quitch grass. crouch grass, quack grass. quiver, v. tremble, shake, shudder, quake. quivering, a. trimbling, tremulous, shuddering, shaking. quixotic, a.

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On the contrary, I know precisely that for either object, whether to bring the weeds and quitch grass to the surface and to wither them by scorching heat, or to expose the earth itself to the sun's baking rays, there can be nothing better than to plough the soil up with a pair of oxen during mid-day in midsummer.

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