📚 Quoth, verb. 🔉 /kwəʊθ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (archaic, humorous • with direct speech): Said (used only in first and third person singular before the subject) ❗️ Examples: 1. ‘Ah,’ quoth he, as soon as the bike started, ‘a blown cylinder head gasket.’ 2. Any port in a storm, quoth the sailors, even if it's a Port-O-Potty. 3. Merriam-Webster online doth quoth: ‘A geek used to be a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake.’ 4. As a result, it saddens me to have to resort to this, but ‘desperate times require desperate measures for measure’, quoth The Bard, or someone else a bit like him who's equally famous. 5. Seabass miso-yaki - marinated for three days in miso and brown sugar, quoth our waiter - never quite rose above its excellent garlic mashed potatoes and dots of racy passionfruit purée. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic