Obs. exc. dial. Also 8–9 quot. [Of obscure origin.]
1. A pimple or pustule; a small boil; a stye.
1579. Langham, Gard. Health, 153. Inflammations and soft swellings, burnings and impostumes, and choleric sores or quats.
1752–3. A. Murphy, Gray’s Inn Jrnl., No. 15. A Quat, or Quot, being a small Heat or Pimple.
1848. A. B. Evans, Leicestersh. Words, s.v., He was rubbing his throat, and he broke the head of his quot.
1896. Warwick Gloss., Quat, a sty or poke.
† 2. transf. Applied contemptuously to a (young) person. Obs.
1604. Shaks., Oth., V. i. 11. I haue rub’d this yong Quat almost to the sense, And he growes angry.
1609. Dekker, Gvlls Horne-bk., 151. Whether he be a young quat of the first year’s revenue, or some austere and sullen-faced steward.
1623. Webster, Devil’s Law-Case, II. i. O young quat, incontinence is plagu’d In all the creatures of the world.
