quinch

词形变化

quinched quinches 三单 quinches quinching quinching 现在分词 quinched 过去式 quinched 过去分词

别名

quinche

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To twitch, as if in pain; flinch, wince.

    不及物 废旧

词源

First attested 1530 as quynche, possibly from unrecorded Middle English *quinchen, itself of obscure origin. Perhaps a fusion of Middle English quicchen, quecchen (“to shake, tremble; twitch, flinch”) and Middle English winchen (“to flinch, wince; veer or move away”), making it equivalent to a blend of quitch + winch. Compare Saterland Frisian kwinkje (“to blink, wink with the eyes”), Middle Dutch quincken, quinken ("to shake, quiver"; whence modern Dutch kwinken, kwinkeleren (“to warble”)), German Low German quinken (“to blink, wink”).

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