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Couch grass
Answer for the clue "Couch grass ", 6 letters:
quitch
Word definitions for quitch in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quitch \Quitch\ (kw[i^]ch), n. (Bot.) Same as Quitch grass . Figuratively: A vice; a taint; an evil. To pick the vicious quitch Of blood and custom wholly out of him. --Tennyson.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. 1 (context transitive obsolete English) To shake (something); to stir, move. (8th-13th c.) 2 (context intransitive now UK regional English) To stir; to move. (from 13th c.) 3 (context intransitive English) To flinch; shrink. vb. 1 (context ...
Usage examples of quitch.
Eoghan bellowed as hundreds of wolves suddenly appeared from all directions, leaping out of secret places among the quitch, their eyes blazing with duchan-tainted fire.