Quinch

Origin

Uncertain; compare quich, , . Johnson suggests the word is a variant of queech, winch, and/or queck.

Full definition of quinch

Verb

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To stir; to act as if in pain, wince.
• 1598, Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande, page 213.And therupon to beÅ¿tow all my Soldiers in Å¿uch Å¿ort as I have done, that no part of all that Realm Å¿hall be able to dare to quinch ...

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