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What (who) is quoth - definition
quoth
[kw???]
¦ verb archaic or humorous said (used only in first and third person singular before the subject).
Origin
ME: past tense of obs. quethe 'say, declare', of Gmc origin.
quoth
Quoth means 'said'. Quoth comes before the subject of the verb. (HUMOROUS or OLD-FASHIONED)
'I blame the selectors,' quoth he.
VERB: V with quote
Quoth
·vt Said; spoke; uttered;
- used only in the first and third persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, the word or words said being the object; as, quoth I. quoth he.
Examples of use of quoth
1. Up starts one fuller of devotion The Eloquence; and said a very ill motion Not soe neither quoth Sir Henry Jenkin The Motion was good; but for the stincking Well quoth Sir Henry Poole it was a bold tricke To Fart in the nose of the bodie pollitique Indeed I confesse quoth Sir Edward Grevill The matter of it selfe was somewhat uncivill Thanke God quoth Sir Edward Hungerford That this Fart proved not a Turdd Useful link Early Stuart libels
2. Fearie well, Quoth Sir William Morris, Soe÷ But Henry Ludlowes Tayle cry‘d Noe.
3. Asked by the interrogator whether he regretted his actions, he didn‘t beat around the bush: "God forbid," quoth he.
4. "McCain heads into tonight‘s debate here down in the polls and in need of a game–changer," quoth NBC.
5. But the underwriters‘ real concern, quoth the indictment, was that if Baumel‘s stock dropped like a stone, the one whose good name would be stained was the underwriters.