QUIT—Dismiss; discharge; remove. Whar’s seea an’ seea leeav noo? Nay they’ve quitted t’ shop on him, an’ neeabody knows ner cares.
“Auld Calcraff hed varra nar manidged te git thi’,
But we’ve seeav’d thy bacon this time, for we quit the.”
—Bowness
QUEEN’S-HEED—A postage stamp.
QUALITY—Bettermer fooak.
QUIFF—A dodge; a trick; a “wrinkle.” Ah’ll put thi up tull a quiff er tweea aboot neet lines if thoo’ll gah wi’ me some neet.
In our dialect, words with Q in them are subject to evasion, or that letter is substituted by some other. The following is an illustration:
Quarten, wharteren; quite, white; quart, whart; quiet, whiat; quaint, whent; quarry, wharl; quill, twill; quilt, twilt; quench, whench or slocken; quick, whick; quick-silver, whick-silver; quick-sand, whick-sand; Quaker, thwaker; quinsey, twinzy; quickning, whicknin; quick-set, whick-set; quicks, whicks; squirt, swirt or sooart. Some of these are no doubt merely humorous variations, but the bulk of them are permanent in the folk speech.