Meanings
quist1
plural quists
- MidlandsUKThe wood pigeon, Columba palumbus.
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It got me thinking about other names we used to call things when we were younger that for some reason as I got older we stopped doing.¶ For example the common woody was a quist, and the sparrow that we so used to love hunting on the summer hedgerows, once the wheat had been cut, were "spugs or spuggies"
2012 June 26, tegater [username], “Quists, spugs and egg and bacon”, in The Hunting Life Forums
Quist2
- A surname.
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Old Englishcūsċeote“wood pigeon, ringdove”
- Middle Englishquiste
- Englishquist
From Middle English quiste, quyste, quyshte, variants of Middle English couschot, cowschote, cowscott, from Old English cūsċeote (“wood pigeon, ringdove”). Doublet of cushat.
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quist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quist
“quist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quist. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “quist,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quist.
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