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quoth
quoth [ kwōth ]


transitive verb 
Definition:
 
said: said ( archaic or literary ) ( 1st and 3rd person singular, before the subject )
'I swoon', quoth he.
[ Old English cwað, the past tense of cweþan 'to say' (source of English bequeath)]
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