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quatch
noun 2adj 1verb 1
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1QUATCH + NOUN
ad, poets
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adj
1
Squat, pudgy, fat.
It is like a barber’s chair that fits all buttocks: the pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, the brawn-buttock, or any buttock.
noun
1
A word, a sound.
No! not a quatch ſad poets! Doubt you, There is not grief enough without you?
2
Alternative spelling of quatsch (“nonsense”)
verb
1
Alternative form of quitch (“quake, stir; brandish, shake (something)”)
The infant, while it lieth in the darke priſon of the mothers wombe, never quatcheth nor weepeth ; but as ſoone as ever it commeth out of the womb into the light, it knits the browes, and wrings the eyes, and cries
So sterne strokes þay arauȝte ; eyther til oþer with strengþe Þat al þe erthe þer-of quaȝte ; a myle & more on lenghþe.
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It is like a barber’s chair that fits all buttocks: the pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, the brawn-buttock, or any buttock.
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No! not a quatch ſad poets! Doubt you, There is not grief enough without you?
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The infant, while it lieth in the darke priſon of the mothers wombe, never quatcheth nor weepeth ; but as ſoone as ever it commeth out of the womb into the light, it knits the browes, and wrings the e
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So sterne strokes þay arauȝte ; eyther til oþer with strengþe Þat al þe erthe þer-of quaȝte ; a myle & more on lenghþe.
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