Meanings
nounquake-breech (plural quake-breeches)
plural quake-breeches
- alternativeobsoleteAlternative form of quakebreech.
adjectivequake-breech (comparative more quake-breech, superlative most quake-breech)
comparative more quake-breech · superlative most quake-breech
- alternativeobsoleteAlternative form of quakebreech.
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.
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
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