quatch

adj, noun — 3 senses

adj

Obsolete, Rare 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.c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

noun

Obsolete, Rare A word, a sound.

No! not a quatch ſad poets! Doubt you, There is not grief enough without you?1647, Richard Corbet, “An Elegy Upon the Death of Queen Anne”, in Certain Elegant Poems, page 78:

Alternative, Uncommon Alternative spelling of quatsch (“nonsense”)

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