Today's Term:
Quitch
Noun: Quitch or quitch grass is another term for (Eurasian) couch grass. In Old English quitch meant quick because the grass was difficult to get rid of for any length of time.
Figuratively: A quitch is also a vice, taint, or evil.
Example:
To pick the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him.
(Tennyson)
(Sources: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Quitch; http://www.thefreedictionary.com/couch+grass; Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Compiled by Patricia Ladensack
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