Quoth

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /kwəʊθ/
• GenAm IPA: /kwoʊθ/
• Rhymes: -əʊθ

Origin

From Old English cwæþ.

Verb

irregular simple past form

1. (archaic or literary)

   quoth

   (simple past of quethe)
   ; said
• 19th century, Jean Ingelow - “Pull, if ye never pull’d before;Good ringers, pull your best,” quoth he.
• 1845 Edgar Allan Poe - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!
  

• 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood“Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow,” quoth Robin, “thou seemest happy this merry morn.”“Ay, that am I,” quoth the jolly Butcher, “and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?”