Meanings
plural quakebreeches · alternative quackbreech · alternative quack-breech · alternative quakebreach · alternative quake-breach
comparative more quakebreech · superlative most quakebreech · alternative quackbreech · alternative quack-breech · alternative quakebreach · alternative quake-breach
- obsoleteCowardly, uncourageous.
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 59Synonyms: cowardly
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA coward.
adjectiveCowardly, uncourageous.
Origin
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quakebreech. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quakebreech
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