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quoth
[ kwohth ]
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.used with all pronouns exceptthou and you, and with nouns another word for said 1
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Origin of quoth1
Old English æٳ, 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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