quatch

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  1. To tell; be a telltale: peach. Halliwell. [Provincial English]
  2. A word. Halliwell. [Provincial English] Noe; not a quatch, sad poets; doubt you There is not greife enough without you? Bp. Corbet, Elegy on Death of Queen Anne. (Davies.)
  3. Squat; flat. It is like a barber's chair, that fits all buttocks; the pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, the brawn buttock, or any buttock. Shak., All's Well, ii. 2. 18.

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  1. Origin obscure.
  2. from quatch, v.
  3. Cf. quat, squat (?).
 

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