quoth
verb/kwəʊθ/UK/kwoʊθ/US
Etymology
From Middle English quoth, quath, from Old English cwæþ (first and third person past indicative of cweþan (“to say, speak to, address, exhort, admonish”)), from Proto-Germanic *kwaþ (first and third person past indicative of Proto-Germanic *kweþaną (“to say”)). Unrelated to quote.
Definitions
said
- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! / Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."
- “Pull, if ye never pull’d before; / Good ringers, pull your best,” quoth he.
To say.
- But the Healing-one stood before the under-king, and the under-king arraigned him, quothing, thou art the king of the Jews? the Healing-one quoths him, thou quoths.
- The owner had the power of transmitting the possession to an heir by bequest, by quothing or speaking forth the name of the intended successor to the lord.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for quoth. 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