a. Obs. exc. dial. Also 6–7 quechy, 9 (dial.) queechy. [f. prec. + -Y2. For the connection between senses 1 and 2, cf. CARR2.]

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  † 1.  Forming a dense growth or thicket. Obs.

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1565.  Golding, Ovid’s Met., To Rdr. (1593), 1. Eche queachie grove, eche cragged cliffe, the name of Godhead tooke.

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1586.  W. Webbe, Eng. Poetrie (Arb.), 76. Neuer againe shall I … See ye in queachie briers … clambring on a high hill.

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  2.  Of ground: Swampy, boggy. Obs. exc. dial.

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1593.  Peele, Edw. I., E iv. The dampes that rise from out the quechy [1599 quesie] plots.

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1613.  Heywood, Braz. Age, II. ii. Wks. 1874, III. 190. Aime them at yon fiend, Den’d in the quechy bogge.

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1631.  Chettle, Hoffmann, I b. Nor doth the sun sucke from the queachy plot The ranknes … of the Earth.

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1886.  Elworthy, W. Som. Word-bk., Queechy,… Applied to land—wet; sodden; swampy.

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  3.  dial. Feeble, weak, small.

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1859.  Geo. Eliot, A. Bede, x. They’re poor queechy things, gells is.

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1886.  Elworthy, W. Som. Word-bk., Queechy, sickly, feeble, queasy.

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