quickens
English edit
Etymology edit
From quicken + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum, plurals of nouns, and the third-person singular indicative present tense of verbs).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈkwɪk(ə)ns/
- Hyphenation: quick‧ens
Noun edit
quickens pl (plural only)
- (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 edit
quickens
- (chiefly Midlands (northern), Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) plural of quicken
Verb edit
quickens
- third-person singular simple present indicative of quicken
Further reading edit
- “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.