140 Contributions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 
Put about. To vex, to worry. “Now dwoan’t ee go an’ put yourself about 
wi't.” N.W. 
Puzzivent. A flurry or taking. “He put I in such a puzzivent.” Formerly 
used in both N. & S. Wilts, but now almost obsolete. Fr. poursuivant. 
According to a note in The astonishing History of Troy Town, by “Q.,” 
ch. 17, the phrase originated from the contempt with which the west-country 
sea-captains treated the poursuivants sent down by Mdward IV. to threaten 
his displeasure. Hence pussivanting, ineffective bustle, Dev. and Cornw. 
Quakers. Briza media, L., Quaking-grass. N. & S.W. 
Quamp. Still, quiet. (A.) N.W. 
*Quanked. Overpowered by fatigue. (A.B.) 
Quar. (1) 2. A quarry. N.W. 
(2) vw. To work asa quarryman. (A.} N.W. 
Quar-Martin. Hirundo riparia, £and-Martin, from its breeding in sandy 
quarries. (Wild Life, ch. 9.) N.W. 
*Quavin-gog. A quagmire. (A.B.H.) See Gog. 
Quat, Qwat, Qwatty. (1) To crouch down, remaining quite still, as a 
scared partridge. (Amateur Poacher, ch. 3). To squat. (A.) N.& S.W. 
(2) To flatten, to squash flat. N.W. 
Queed, Quid. (1) The cud. (MS. Lansd.) N.W. 
*(2) Tosuck. (A.) N.W. 
Quest, Quist. The Woodpigeon, Columba palumbus (A.B.) ; Quisty 
(Birds of Wilts, p. 318). N. & S.W, 
Quiff. A knack, a trick. “ There’s a quiff about that.” N.W. 
Quill. The humour, mood, or vein for anything. “I can work as well as or 
_ aman, when I be in the quill for’t.” N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
Quilt. (1) vw. To swallow. (A.B.) ‘The baby was that bad, it could’nt 
quilt nothing.” N.W. 
(2) x. A gulp,amouthful. ‘Have aquilt on’t?” havea drop of it. N.W. 
Quinnet. A wedge, as the iron wedge fastening the ring of the scythe nibs 
in place, or the wooden wedge or cleat which secures the head of an axe or 
hammer. See also Scythe. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
*Quirk. To complain (A.B.), spelt Quisk by Akerman in error. 
Quiset about. ° To pry about. (Wilts Arch. Mag., vol. xxii. p. 112.) N.W. 
Quob. (1) A soft wet place, a bit of marsh or bog. N.W. 
(2) Hence “all in a quob,” said of a bad bruise. N.W. 
*Quop. To throb. (A.B.) 
R. In pronunciation » often has d or ¢ affixed or prefixed, as Cavaltry, 
* “horsemen ; Crockerty, crockery ; Millard, miller, ete, 
