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English
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Etymology
quake + breech
Noun
quakebreech (plural quakebreeches)
- (obsolete) A coward.
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Adjective
quakebreech (comparative more quakebreech, superlative most quakebreech)
- (obsolete) Cowardly, uncourageous.
1705, John Stevens, A Continuation of the Comical History of the Most Ingenious Knight, Don Quixote de la Mancha, volume 3, translation of original by de Avellaneda, Alonso Fernández, page 59:Hang me, if I do not fancy I ſtill hear that confounded Noiſe, which made my Guts wamble in my Belly! Faith and Troth, I found that Bout that my Mothers Son was in Quake-breech fear.
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