QUOTH Definition & Meaning

quoth

Also quo

[kwohth]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb

Archaic.

said (used with nouns, and with first- and third-person pronouns, and always placed before the subject).
Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.”

quoth

/ ��əʊθ /

verb

archaic��another word for said 1

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of quoth¹

First recorded in 1150–1200; preterit of quethe (otherwise obsolete), Middle English quethen, Old English cwethan “to say.” bequeath

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of quoth¹

Old English ��æ�ٳ�, third person singular of cwethan to say; related to Old Frisian quetha to say, Old Saxon, Old High German quethan; see _bequeath

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“Nameless here for evermore. . . Darkness there and nothing more. . . Merely this and nothing more. . . Quoth the Raven ‘Nevermore.’”

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“I don’t know what Congressman Clyde said,” quoth McCarthy, and “I didn’t see it.”

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“Blankets for a hotel” quoth one of the men who laughed and helped.

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As quoth Poe: "The simple truths which science unfolds, day after day, are in fact, far stranger, apparently, than the wildest dreams."

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Quoth MSCHF’s latest manifesto: When killer robots come to America they will be wrapped in fur, carrying a ball.

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