Word of the Day Sunday, October 26, 2014 quickhatch \ KWIK-hach \ noun; 1.a wolverine. Quotes: Thereafter the rich American sent swiftly by cable for a beast which he called a quickhatch , and whose name the trappers of the Rocky Mountains use when they want to call any one by a worse name than devil. -- F. St. Mars, On Natures Trail , 1912 Sabine, who replied in his usual sententious manner— A Scotchman would call it a quickhatch , an Indian an okelcoo hawgew, and a Canadian a carcajou. And what do you call it? A wolverene, maam, returned Sabine… -- Jules Verne, Translated by N. D’Anvers, The Fur Country , 1873 Origin: Quickhatch comes from a Native American language called East Cree spoken in what is now Canada; the word was spelled kwi˙hkwaha˙če˙w . It entered English in the 1670s and was earlier spelled quiquahatch .
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 17:49:46 +0000
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