quitch
nounEtymology From Middle English quich, a palatalized variant of quike, quyke, from Old English cwice, from Proto-West Germanic *kwikwā, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwǭ. Cognate with Dutch kweek, German Low German Queek, German Quecke.
1
Elymus repens, couch grass (a species of grass, often considered a weed)
- we found the bones and ashes half mortered unto the sand and sides of the Urne; and some long roots of Quich, or Dogs-grass wreathed about the bones.1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 21:
- Derived terms
- couch, couch-grass, quitch grass, quitchgrass