1842. J. Pearson, in Q. Jrnl. Agric., X. 549. A mossy turf, a squitchy turf, &c. Ibid., 550. The very thing which the agriculturist destroys when he burns his squitchy turf.
1851. H. Melville, Moby-Dick, iii. 12. A boggy, soggy, squitchy picture truly, enough to drive a nervous man distracted.
