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quakebreech

noun

Etymology

From quake + breech.

  1. derived from *brōks✻ — “clothing for loins and thighs”
  2. inherited from *brōkiz✻
  3. inherited from brēċ
  4. inherited from breche
  5. compounded as quakebreech — “quake + breech”

Definitions

  1. A coward.

  2. Cowardly, 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA