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出典:『Wiktionary』 (2024/10/15 12:39 UTC 版)
First attested 1530 as quynche, possibly from unrecorded 中期英語 *quinchen, itself of obscure origin. Perhaps a fusion of 中期英語 quicchen, quecchen (“to shake, tremble; twitch, flinch”) and 中期英語 winchen (“to flinch, wince; veer or move away”), making it equivalent to a blend of quitch + winch.
Compare Saterland Frisian kwinkje (“to blink, wink with the eyes”), Middle Dutch quincken, quinken ("to shake, quiver"; whence modern Dutch kwinken, kwinkeleren (“to warble”)), German Low German quinken (“to blink, wink”).
quinch (third-person singular simple present quinches, present participle quinching, simple past and past participle quinched)