quitch

verb /kwɪt͡ʃ/

1. To shake (something); to stir, move.

   obsolete, transitive

2. To stir; to move.

   intransitive

   With a strong yron chaine and coller bound, / That once he could not move, nor quich at all […].

3. To flinch; shrink.

   intransitive

Where it comes from

From Middle English quicchen, quytchen, quecchen, from Old English cweċċan (“to shake, swing, move, vibrate, shake off, give up”). Related to Old English cwacian (“to quake”). More at quake.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry quitch (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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