Meaning

3 senses

  1. (Scotland, dialectal, transitive)To relinquish, forsake, give up.

    Ye hae grown proud since ye quatted the begging. — Scottish proverb, said satirically.

  2. (dialectal, intransitive)To squat or crouch down.

  3. (obsolete, transitive)To satiate.

Forms

quats, quatting, quatted, quatted
Base formquat · to quat
3rd person singularquats
Present participlequatting
Past simplequatted
Past participlequatted

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyquat
he, she, itquats

Past simpleLesson

all personsquatted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave quatted
he, she, ithas quatted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill quat

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
quartetquartzquashquassiaquaverquay
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