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Quitted vs Quirted - What's the difference?

quitted | quirted |

As verbs the difference between quitted and quirted

is that quitted is (quit) while quirted is (quirt).

quitted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (quit)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1941 , author=Chapman Miske , title=The Thing in the Moonlight , passage=Casting my eyes about, I beheld no living object; but was sensible of a very peculiar stirring far below me, amongst the whispering rushes of the pestilential swamp I had lately quitted .}}

    Usage notes

    * See .

    Synonyms

    * quit

    quirted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (quirt)

    • quirt

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.
  • *about 1900 , O. Henry,
  • *:He sprang into the saddle easily as a bird, got the quirt from the horn, and gave his pony a slash with it.
  • *
    • He paused a moment and flicked a sage-brush with his quirt .
  • * 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter I:
  • * 1973 , (Kyril Bonfiglioli), Don't Point That Thing at Me , Penguin (2001), page 96:
  • *:She raised the handle of her beautiful quirt to her eyes and scanned the Western horizon.
  • * 1994 , (Cormac McCarthy), The Crossing :
    • He rode his horse with the reins tied and he wore a pistol at his belt and a plain flatcrowned hat of a type no longer much seen in that country and he wore tooled boots to his knees and carried a quirt .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To strike with a quirt.