quotqueant

A corruption of cotquean. Don Quot - quean, Don Spinster! wear a petticoat still, and put on your smock a' Monday. Fletcher ( and another ), Love's Cure, ii. 2. quotum (kwō'tum), n. [L., neut. of quotus, of what number, how many, The number of names which are really formed by an imitation of sound dwindles down to a very small quotum if cro -examined by the comparative philologist. Max Müller . This column of "Local Notes and Queries"... has been succeeded by a column entitled "Notes and Quotes . " N. and Q., 7th ser., VII. 505. 3. A quotation-mark: usually in the plural. [Colloq.]-4+. A quotient. [Rare.]