quoth
pronunciation
How to pronounce quoth in British English:
UK [kwəʊθ]
How to pronounce quoth in American English:
US [kwoʊθ]
Word Origin
- quoth
- quoth: see bequeath
- quoth (v.)
- Old English cwæð, third person singular past tense of cweðan "to say, speak; name, call; declare, proclaim" (Middle English quethan), from Proto-Germanic *kwithan (cognates: Old Saxon quethan, Old Norse kveða, Old Frisian quetha, Old High German quedan, Gothic qiþan), from PIE root *gwet- "to say, speak" (see bequeath). Compare also archaic quotha "said he" (1510s) for Old English cwæðe ge "think you?"
Example
- 1. ' Come away from him , do , miss dombey , ' quoth the matron .
- 2. Quoth he , ' that 's for me , ' and soon rooted it out from beneath the straw .
- 3. ' Ask your pardon , sir , you would be very wrong , ' quoth silver .
- 4. And it cannot come too soon , quoth this raven .
- 5. Quoth one paper : " we have received a letter from a gentleman who wrote a poem just like it , only better , some time ago . "