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quat

noun
/kwɒt/UK/kwɑt/US

Etymology

Clipping of quaternary.

Definitions

  1. A pustule.

  2. An annoying, worthless person.

    • I have rubb'd this young quat almost to the sense, And he grows angry.

  3. To satiate.

    • 1757, Samuel Foote, The Author, Act II, Scene ii, 1765, The Dramatic Works, Volume 1, page 28, Mrs. Cad. Well, come, begin and ſtart me, that I may come the ſooner to quatting——Huſh ! here′s Siſter ; what the deuce brought her !
  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. To relinquish, forsake, give up.

      • Ye hae grown proud since ye quatted the begging. — Scottish proverb, said satirically.
      • 'Mang mis'ry's posts, whar I did sit, My tongue took sic a faltrin' fit, I thought the wee remains o' wit I had, was quat me
      • They seem to our ears indeed to have "quat their roaring play."

    2. To squat or crouch down.

      • Tho' B-lt-n, quatted in the hall, Her jolly r-mpfs display'd, The size of it amaz'd them all, and Hector quite dismay'd.
      • This cows' courant so excited the tinners' curiosity that they went up the hill till they saw the two men wrestling, with the women looking on; then they quatted (stooped) down in a brake of furze to watch the play without being seen.
      • Tarka quatted on the ledge ; he knew that Deadlock would follow hiin wherever he swam in water.

    3. Free

      Free; no longer involved with; quit.

      • My word, I gie him nae encouragement ! I canna bide the sicht o' him, and wad gie the best gown I hae to be quat o' him."
      • There it is, sir—Im blythe to be quat of it; pitch it from ye furder than I can see.
      • HECH me, but I'm weary, I'm heart-sick and sad ; O' my kinsfolk I've got quite a wamefu', I wush I was quat o' the d — nable squad — Forgi'e me for sweerin' sae shamefu'.

    4. A quaternary ammonium cation or compound.

      • “Because quats are positively charged, and skin proteins have a slightly negative charge, quats like to attach themselves to skin,” said Greg Nole, a manager at Unilever, the parent company of Vaseline and Dove.

    5. Quaternary.

    6. Alternative spelling of khat.

    7. Alternative form of quat (“quaternary ammonium”).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for quat. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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