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Quoth
(gcide) | Quoth \Quoth\ (kw[=o]th or kw[u^]th), v. t. [AS. cwe[eth]an, imp
cw[ae][eth], pl. cw[=ae]don; akin to OS. que[eth]an, OHG.
quethan, quedan, Icel. kve[eth]a, Goth. qi[thorn]an.
[root]22. Cf. Bequeath.]
Said; spoke; uttered; -- used only in the first and third
persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its
nominative, the word or words said being the object; as,
quoth I, quoth he. "Let me not live, quoth he." --Shak.
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Quoth
(gcide) | Quoth \Quoth\ (kw[=o]th or kw[u^]th), v. t. [AS. cwe[eth]an, imp
cw[ae][eth], pl. cw[=ae]don; akin to OS. que[eth]an, OHG.
quethan, quedan, Icel. kve[eth]a, Goth. qi[thorn]an.
[root]22. Cf. Bequeath.]
Said; spoke; uttered; -- used only in the first and third
persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its
nominative, the word or words said being the object; as,
quoth I, quoth he. "Let me not live, quoth he." --Shak.
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Quotha
(gcide) | Quotha \Quoth"a\ (kw[=o]th"[.a]), interj. [For quoth 'a, said
he, 'a being corrupted from he.]
Indeed; forsooth.
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To affront the blessed hillside drabs and thieves
With mended morals, quotha, -- fine new lives ! --Mrs.
Browning.
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