different between quist vs quirt

English

Etymology

From Middle English quiste, quyste, quyshte, variants of Middle English couschot, cowschote, cowscott, from Old English c?s?eote (“wood pigeon, ringdove”). Doublet of cushat.

Noun

quist (plural quists)

1. (Midlands) The wood pigeon, Columba palumbus.

Anagrams

• quits, squit

Middle English

Noun

quist

1. Alternative form of quiste

English

Etymology

From Spanish cuerda (“cord”), or Mexican Spanish cuarta (“whip”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kw??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kw?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Noun

quirt (plural quirts)

1. A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.
   • about 1900, O. Henry, Hygeia at the Solito

     He sprang into the saddle easily as a bird, got the quirt from the horn, and gave his pony a slash with it.

   • He paused a moment and flicked a sage-brush with his quirt.

   • 1920, Peter B. Kyne, The Understanding Heart, Chapter I:

     […] when the young man whirled his horse, “hazed” Jupiter in circles and belaboured him with a rawhide quirt, […] He ceased his cavortings […]

   • 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin (2001), page 96:

     She raised the handle of her beautiful quirt to her eyes and scanned the Western horizon.

   • 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing:

     He rode his horse with the reins tied and he wore a pistol at his belt and a plain flatcrowned hat of a type no longer much seen in that country and he wore tooled boots to his knees and carried a quirt.

Translations

Verb

quirt (third-person singular simple present quirts, present participle quirting, simple past and past participle quirted)

1. To strike with a quirt.

Synonyms

• (to whip or scourge): Thesaurus:whip