Obs. [f. quatch, var. QUETCH v.: cf. QUINCH sb.] A word, a sound.
a. 1635. Corbet, Poems (1807), 114. Noe; not a quatch, sad poets; doubt you, There is not greife enough without you?
1783. Nichols, Bibl. Top. (1790), IV. 57. (Berks) A quatch is a word. [Hence in Grose and Halliwell.]
