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couch grass

[ kouch gras, kooch ]

noun

  1. any of various grasses, especially Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly.


couch grass

/ kuËtʃ; kaÊŠtʃ /

noun

  1. a grass, Agropyron repens, with a yellowish-white creeping underground stem by which it spreads quickly: a troublesome weed Sometimes shortened tocouch Also calledscutch grasstwitch grassquitch grass
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of couch grass1

1570–80; couch, variant of quitch
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I remember one summer evening, sitting under a cloud of midges, weeding out couch grass until it was too dark to see.

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Already clumps of couch grass are beginning to thrust up.

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He had red hair, planted in his head like couch grass, and on his nose he wore a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles.

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Those lovely eyes! ’tis the sun blazing on me, making the madness of love spring up higher than couch grass in a deserted garden.â€

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I remember the horrent couch grass that waved its ragged tresses above me, and how I told myself that the range of the sand dunes were great lions with bristling manes marching along to Exmouth.

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