quickens

English

Etymology

From quicken +‎ -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum, plurals of nouns, and the third-person singular indicative present tense of verbs).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkwɪk(ə)ns/
• Hyphenation: quick‧ens

Noun

quickens pl (plural only)

1. (chiefly Midlands (northern), Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) Synonym of couch grass (“a species of grass, Elymus repens”); also, the underground rhizomes of this, and sometimes other grasses.
   • 1898, Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, Edinburgh, Transactions:

     Quickens are not confined to one species of grass.

Noun

quickens

1. (chiefly Midlands (northern), Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) plural of quicken

Verb

quickens

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of quicken

Further reading

• “quicken, n.²”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.