[Perh. imitative; but Gosse suggests that it may be African.] The popular name of many small Jamaican birds.
1847. Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 254. The name of Quit is applied without much discrimination by the negroes of Jamaica, to several small birds, such as the Banana Quit, which is a Creeper, and the Blue Quit, and Grass Quits which are finches.
1882–. in Ogilvie and later Dicts.
1894. Newton, Dict. Birds, 761.
