quatch

1. obsoleterareSquat, pudgy, fat.First known use 17th century

   It is like a barber’s chair that fits all buttocks: the pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, the brawn-buttock, or any buttock.

   c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]

plural quatches

1. countableobsoleterareuncountableA word, a sound.First known use 17th to 18th century

   No! not a quatch ſad poets! Doubt you, There is not grief enough without you?

   1647, Richard Corbet, “An Elegy Upon the Death of Queen Anne”, in Certain Elegant Poems, page 78

2. alternativeuncommonuncountableAlternative spelling of quatsch (“nonsense”)First known use 20th century

present singular third person quatches · present singular third person quatcheth · participle present quatching · participle past quatched · past quatched

1. alternativearchaicintransitiveobsoletetransitiveAlternative form of quitch (“quake, stir; brandish, shake (something)”)

   So sterne strokes þay arauȝte ; eyther til oþer with strengþe Þat al þe erthe þer-of quaȝte ; a myle & more on lenghþe.

   1879 [c. 1380], Sidney J. Heritage, editor, Sir Ferumbras, London: Early English Text Society, page 25

   1 more example

   The infant, while it lieth in the darke priſon of the mothers wombe, never quatcheth nor weepeth ; but as ſoone as ever it commeth out of the womb into the light, it knits the browes, and wrings the eyes, and cries

   1636, Daniel Featley, Clavis Mystica, page 900