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CouchEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
* As a Welsh surname, from coch (“red”). * As an French surname, from Old French couch (“bed”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗couchEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English couche, cowche, from Old French couche, from the verb (see below). Doublet of cwtch.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗couchEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English couchen, from Old French (se) couchier, (se) colchier (“go to bed, lay down”), from Latin collocāre (“set in place”), from com- (“together, with”) + locāre. Doublet of collocate.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗couchEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Etymology tree Old English cwice Middle English quike /quyke Middle English quich English quitch English couch From a variant of quitch, from Middle English quich, quyke, from Old English cwice, from Proto-West Germanic *kwikwā, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwǭ, from *kwikwaz (“alive, lively”). Related to quick. More at quitch.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- CouchEnglish · e-37683-6227
Couch, kowch, v.t. to lay down on a bed, &c.: to lower: to level: to arrange in language, to express: to depress or remove a cataract in the eye.—v.i. to lie down for the purpose of sleep, concealment, &c.: to bend or st
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Couch, kowch, Couch-grass, kowch′-gras, n. a grass of the same genus with wheat, but a widespread and troublesome weed. [A variant of Quitch.]
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