QUINCHNOUN
a twitch or jerk of the body; a twinge ...1571 obs. exc. Amer. dial. VERB 1. to move, to stir, to make a slight noise; to start, to flinch, to wince ...1530 obs. exc. Amer. dial. 2. to put out, to extinguish, as a candle ...Bk1905 Ireland 3. to stop up, to fill ...Bk1905 Ireland ETYMOLOGY perhaps a variant of quitch 'Quetch', to move the body, by association with winch 'Wince'; or related to winch as quag is to wag FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1530 - Quynche, I styrre, je moune I quynche, I make a noyse, je tynte From: L'esclarcissement de la langue francoyse By: John Palsgrave, 1530 EXAMPLE "...so manfull of mind as neuer seene to quinch at a wound, or to smart at the paine" From: Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland By: Raphael Holinshed, 1576 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933 • A Glossary, or Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Illusions to Customs, Proverbs, Etc....., Robert Nares, 1888 • A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words, Walter W. Skeat, 1914 • Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Porter, 1895 • Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English, Thomas Wright, 1880 • The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, 1898-1905 • Dictionary of American Regional English
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