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Quat
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- 1 Free; no longer involved with; quit. Scotland, dialectal, not-comparable
"My word, I gie him nae encouragement ! I canna bide the sicht o' him, and wad gie the best gown I hae to be quat o' him.""
- 2 Quaternary. not-comparable
- 1 A pustule. obsolete
- 2 A quaternary ammonium cation or compound.
"“Because quats are positively charged, and skin proteins have a slightly negative charge, quats like to attach themselves to skin,” said Greg Nole, a manager at Unilever, the parent company of Vaseline and Dove."
- 3 Alternative spelling of khat. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
- 4 Alternative form of quat (“quaternary ammonium”). alt-of, alternative
- 5 the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant wordnet
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- 6 An annoying, worthless person. obsolete
"I have rubb'd this young quat almost to the sense, And he grows angry."
- 1 To satiate. obsolete, transitive
"1757, Samuel Foote, The Author, Act II, Scene ii, 1765, The Dramatic Works, Volume 1, page 28, Mrs. Cad. Well, come, begin and ſtart me, that I may come the ſooner to quatting——Huſh ! here′s Siſter ; what the deuce brought her !"
- 2 To relinquish, forsake, give up. Scotland, dialectal, transitive
"Ye hae grown proud since ye quatted the begging. — Scottish proverb, said satirically."
- 3 To squat or crouch down. dialectal, intransitive
"Tho' B-lt-n, quatted in the hall, Her jolly r-mpfs display'd, The size of it amaz'd them all, and Hector quite dismay'd."
Etymology
Clipping of quaternary.
Clipping of quaternary.
See khat.
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