quitter

noun /ˈkwɪ.tə/

1. Matter flowing from a wound or sore; pus.

   uncountable

   Therfor Sathan [...] smoot Joob with a ful wickid botche fro the sole of the foot til to his top; which Joob schauyde the quytere with a schelle, and sat in the dunghil.

2. Scoria of tin.

   obsolete, uncountable

Where it comes from

From Middle English quitter, from Anglo-Norman quiture, quyture et al., specialised use of quiture (“burn mark, burning”), from the participle stem of cuire (“to cook”), or from Latin coctura (“cooking”).

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

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