queach

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kwiːt͡ʃ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -iːtʃ

Noun

queach (plural queaches)

(archaic) A thick, bushy plot; a thicket.
- 1567, Arthur Golding, Ovid's Metamorphoses: the first booke, lines 137–8:
  Men gan to shroud themselves in house. Their houses were the thickes,
  And bushie queaches, hollow caves, or hardels made of stickes.
- 1614–1615, Homer, “The Nineteenth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. , London: Rich Field , for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, , volume II, London: John Russell Smith, , 1857, →OCLC:
  They found they lodged a boar of bulk extreme,
  In such a queach as never any beam
  The spelling has been modernized.

References

“queach”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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