See quatch in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "?"
},
"expansion": "quatch",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"attestations": [
{
"date": "17th century",
"references": []
}
],
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "47 2 42 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "64 2 24 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "57 2 36 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
73,
87
]
],
"ref": "c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:",
"text": "It is like a barber’s chair that fits all buttocks: the pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, the brawn-buttock, or any buttock.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Squat, pudgy, fat."
],
"id": "en-quatch-en-adj--0PQSvC2",
"links": [
[
"Squat",
"squat#English"
],
[
"pudgy",
"pudgy"
],
[
"fat",
"fat"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare, obsolete) Squat, pudgy, fat."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"rare"
]
}
],
"word": "quatch"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "quatches",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "quatch (countable and uncountable, plural quatches)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"attestations": [
{
"date": "17th to 18th century",
"references": []
}
],
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
10,
16
]
],
"ref": "1647, Richard Corbet, “An Elegy Upon the Death of Queen Anne”, in Certain Elegant Poems, page 78:",
"text": "No! not a quatch ſad poets! Doubt you,\nThere is not grief enough without you?",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A word, a sound."
],
"id": "en-quatch-en-noun-xt2Y2Gie",
"links": [
[
"word",
"word"
],
[
"sound",
"sound"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete, rare) A word, a sound."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"obsolete",
"rare",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "nonsense",
"word": "quatsch"
}
],
"attestations": [
{
"date": "from 20th century",
"references": []
}
],
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "47 2 42 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative spelling of quatsch (“nonsense”)"
],
"id": "en-quatch-en-noun-oidGRdLc",
"links": [
[
"quatsch",
"quatsch#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncommon, uncountable) Alternative spelling of quatsch (“nonsense”)"
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"uncommon",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"word": "quatch"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "quatches",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "quatcheth",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "quatching",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "quatched",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "quatched",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "+,~eth"
},
"expansion": "quatch (third-person singular simple present quatches or quatcheth, present participle quatching, simple past and past participle quatched)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "(“quake, stir; brandish, shake (something)”)",
"word": "quitch"
}
],
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
75,
84
]
],
"ref": "1636, Daniel Featley, Clavis Mystica, page 900:",
"text": "The infant, while it lieth in the darke priſon of the mothers wombe, never quatcheth nor weepeth ; but as ſoone as ever it commeth out of the womb into the light, it knits the browes, and wrings the eyes, and cries",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
85,
91
]
],
"ref": "1879 [c. 1380], Sidney J. Heritage, editor, Sir Ferumbras, London: Early English Text Society, page 25:",
"text": "So sterne strokes þay arauȝte ; eyther til oþer with strengþe\nÞat al þe erthe þer-of quaȝte ; a myle & more on lenghþe.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of quitch (“quake, stir; brandish, shake (something)”)"
],
"id": "en-quatch-en-verb--j0zxNt1",
"links": [
[
"quitch",
"quitch#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive and transitive, archaic or obsolete) Alternative form of quitch (“quake, stir; brandish, shake (something)”)"
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"archaic",
"intransitive",
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"word": "quatch"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "?"
},
"expansion": "quatch",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"attestations": [
{
"date": "17th century",
"references": []
}
],
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
73,
87
]
],
"ref": "c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:",
"text": "It is like a barber’s chair that fits all buttocks: the pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, the brawn-buttock, or any buttock.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Squat, pudgy, fat."
],
"links": [
[
"Squat",
"squat#English"
],
[
"pudgy",
"pudgy"
],
[
"fat",
"fat"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare, obsolete) Squat, pudgy, fat."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"rare"
]
}
],
"word": "quatch"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "quatches",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "quatch (countable and uncountable, plural quatches)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"attestations": [
{
"date": "17th to 18th century",
"references": []
}
],
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
10,
16
]
],
"ref": "1647, Richard Corbet, “An Elegy Upon the Death of Queen Anne”, in Certain Elegant Poems, page 78:",
"text": "No! not a quatch ſad poets! Doubt you,\nThere is not grief enough without you?",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A word, a sound."
],
"links": [
[
"word",
"word"
],
[
"sound",
"sound"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete, rare) A word, a sound."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"obsolete",
"rare",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "nonsense",
"word": "quatsch"
}
],
"attestations": [
{
"date": "from 20th century",
"references": []
}
],
"categories": [
"English terms with uncommon senses",
"English uncountable nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative spelling of quatsch (“nonsense”)"
],
"links": [
[
"quatsch",
"quatsch#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncommon, uncountable) Alternative spelling of quatsch (“nonsense”)"
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"uncommon",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"word": "quatch"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "quatches",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "quatcheth",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "quatching",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "quatched",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "quatched",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "+,~eth"
},
"expansion": "quatch (third-person singular simple present quatches or quatcheth, present participle quatching, simple past and past participle quatched)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "(“quake, stir; brandish, shake (something)”)",
"word": "quitch"
}
],
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with archaic senses",
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
75,
84
]
],
"ref": "1636, Daniel Featley, Clavis Mystica, page 900:",
"text": "The infant, while it lieth in the darke priſon of the mothers wombe, never quatcheth nor weepeth ; but as ſoone as ever it commeth out of the womb into the light, it knits the browes, and wrings the eyes, and cries",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
85,
91
]
],
"ref": "1879 [c. 1380], Sidney J. Heritage, editor, Sir Ferumbras, London: Early English Text Society, page 25:",
"text": "So sterne strokes þay arauȝte ; eyther til oþer with strengþe\nÞat al þe erthe þer-of quaȝte ; a myle & more on lenghþe.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of quitch (“quake, stir; brandish, shake (something)”)"
],
"links": [
[
"quitch",
"quitch#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive and transitive, archaic or obsolete) Alternative form of quitch (“quake, stir; brandish, shake (something)”)"
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"archaic",
"intransitive",
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"word": "quatch"
}
Download raw JSONL data for quatch meaning in English (4.9kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.