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Meaning of quist | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. The wood pigeon, Columba palumbus.
    Midlands, UK
  2. A surname.

Examples

“It got me thinking about other names we used to call things when we were younger that for some reason as I got older we stopped doing.¶ For example the common woody was a quist, and the sparrow that we so used to love hunting on the summer hedgerows, once the wheat had been cut, were "spugs or spuggies"”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

Quistclose trust quisultazine quisutsch quit quit buddy quit lit

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