quist
See also: Quist
English
Etymology
From Middle English quiste, quyste, quyshte, variants of Middle English couschot, cowschote, cowscott, from Old English cūsċeote (“wood pigeon, ringdove”). Doublet of cushat.
Noun
quist (plural quists)
- (UK Midlands) The wood pigeon, Columba palumbus.
- 2012 June 26, tegater [username], “Quists, spugs and egg and bacon”, in The Hunting Life Forums:
- It got me thinking about other names we used to call things when we were younger that for some reason as I got older we stopped doing.¶ For example the common woody was a quist, and the sparrow that we so used to love hunting on the summer hedgerows, once the wheat had been cut, were "spugs or spuggies"
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Anagrams
- quits, squit
Middle English
Noun
quist
- Alternative form of quiste