quoth
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Is quoth a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (archaic or literary, now defective) simple past of quethe; saidExamples: "Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! / Quoth the raven, "Nevermore.""; "“Pull, if ye never pull’d before; / Good ringers, pull your best,” quoth he."; "“Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow,” quoth Robin, “thou seemest happy this merry morn.” ¶ “Ay, that am I,” quoth the jolly Butcher, “and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?”"archaicdefectiveform-ofliterarypast
verb (English)
1. (defective, modal, auxiliary, nonstandard, archaic) To say.Examples: "But the Healing-one stood before the under-king, and the under-king arraigned him, quothing, thou art the king of the Jews? the Healing-one quoths him, thou quoths."; "The owner had the power of transmitting the possession to an heir by bequest, by quothing or speaking forth the name of the intended successor to the lord."; "“Why, no,” quothed Jonathan; “for to tell thee the truth, friend, though I am a man of peace, being of that religious order known as the Society of Friends, I am not so weak in person nor so timid in disposition as to warrant me in being afraid of any one.[…]”"archaicauxiliarydefectivemodalnonstandard
Definition source: Wiktionary