quakebreech
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See also: quake-breech
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
quakebreech (plural quakebreeches)
Synonyms[edit]
- quakebuttock; see also Thesaurus:coward
Adjective[edit]
quakebreech (comparative more quakebreech, superlative most quakebreech)
- (obsolete) Cowardly, uncourageous.
- 1705, John Stevens, A Continuation of the Comical History of the Most Ingenious Knight, Don Quixote de la Mancha, volume 3, translation of original by de Avellaneda, Alonso Fernández, page 59:
- Hang me, if I do not fancy I ſtill hear that confounded Noiſe, which made my Guts wamble in my Belly! Faith and Troth, I found that Bout that my Mothers Son was in Quake-breech fear.