Definitions for quothkwoʊθ
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
quoth*kwoʊθ(v.)
said (used with nouns, and with first- and third-person pronouns, and always placed before the subject): Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.” (E.A. Poe)
* Archaic..
Origin of quoth:
1150–1200; ME quethen, OE cwethan to say, c. OHG quedan, ON kuetha, Go qithan
Wiktionary
quoth(Verb)
; said
Origin: cwæþ
Webster Dictionary
Quoth(verb)
said; spoke; uttered; -- used only in the first and third persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, the word or words said being the object; as, quoth I. quoth he
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