different between quat vs hunker

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kw?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

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Noun

quat (plural quats)

1. (obsolete) A pustule.
2. (obsolete) An annoying, worthless person.

Verb

quat (third-person singular simple present quats, present participle quatting, simple past and past participle quatted)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To satiate.
   • 1757, Samuel Foote, The Author, Act II, Scene ii, 1765, The Dramatic Works, Volume 1, page 28,

     Mrs. Cad. Well, come, begin and ?tart me, that I may come the ?ooner to quatting——Hu?h ! here?s Si?ter ; what the deuce brought her !

2. (Scotland, dialectal, transitive) To relinquish, forsake, give up.

   Ye hae grown proud since ye quatted the begging. — Scottish proverb, said satirically.
3. (Wales and Southwest England, dialectal, intransitive) To squat or crouch down.

Adjective

quat (not comparable)

1. (Scotland, dialectal, with "of") Free; no longer involved with; quit.

Etymology 2

Clipping of quaternary.

Noun

quat (plural quats)

1. (chemistry) A quaternary ammonium cation or compound.

Adjective

quat (not comparable)

1. Quaternary.

Etymology 3

See khat.

Noun

quat (countable and uncountable, plural quats)

1. Alternative spelling of khat.

Middle English

Adjective

quat

1. Alternative form of wothe

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kw?d?, whence also Old English cw?ad.

Noun

qu?t m

1. mud
2. dirt

Descendants

• German: Kot

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??k?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h??k?/
• Rhymes: -??k?(?)

Etymology 1

Originally Scottish. Origin uncertain, but probably of Germanic origin, perhaps *hunk- a nasalised variant of *huk- (compare Scots hoonk, hounk, variants of huk, hok (“to squat, crouch”); Scots hocker (“to crouch down, hunker”)), all of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse huka (“to crouch”), from Proto-Germanic *h?kan- (“to squat”), from *h?kkan-, back-formed from the iterative *huk(k)?n-, from Proto-Indo-European *kuk-néh?, from *kewk- (“to curve, bend”) (also the source of high).

Probable cognates include Old Norse húka, Dutch huiken, and German hocken.

Verb

hunker (third-person singular simple present hunkers, present participle hunkering, simple past and past participle hunkered)

1. (intransitive) To crouch or squat close to the ground or lie down
2. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task

Synonyms

• (crouch, squat or lie): crouch, squat, lie

Derived terms

• hunkers
• hunker down

Translations

Etymology 2

Unknown

Noun

hunker (plural hunkers)

1. (dated) A political conservative.

See also

• hunkers

References

Anagrams

• Ruhnke

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??k?r

Verb

hunker

1. first-person singular present indicative of hunkeren
2. imperative of hunkeren

Anagrams

• hurken