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quidditch

/ˈkwɪdɪt͡ʃ/

noun

What it means

  1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of Quidditch.

    We can disinfect headsets and teach a group of fifth graders how to play library quidditch.

    2001, Virginia A. Walter, Children & Libraries: Getting It Right
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    The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the keenly anticipated Florida theme park, will open in the spring and allow visitors to tour Hogwarts, buy quidditch gear and drink butterbeer.

    2009 September 16, Brooks Barnes, “Universal Lifts the Veil on a Harry Potter Park”, in New York Times
  2. broadlyuncountableMuggle quidditch

In a sentence

We can disinfect headsets and teach a group of fifth graders how to play library quidditch.

2001, Virginia A. Walter, Children & Libraries: Getting It Right

Where it comes from

Coined by British author J. K. Rowling in her 1997 book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. In Quidditch Through the Ages, Rowling gives some etymological information, hinting that the word evolved from Queerditch (compound of queer + ditch), with some spelling variation as would be expected in real life Middle English, namely Kwidditch, Kweerditch.

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