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quin

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
15
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/kwɪn/
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/kwɪn/ · [kʰw̥ɪn]

Definition of quin

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (informal)A quintuplet.
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noun

  1. (informal)A quintuplet.
  2. A European scallop, Pecten opercularis, used as food.
    “Similarly the stocks of the free-living scallops and quins, which are caught by trawling, are threatened by over-fishing to supply the market for canned or frozen luxury sea-foods.”

name

  1. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
  2. (countable, uncountable)A village in County Clare, Ireland, south-east of Ennis (Irish grid ref R 4174).

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Etymology

* Irish: variant of Quinn, from Irish Ó Coinn (“descendant of Chief”). * English (of Norman origin): nickname from Old French quin (“monkey”). * French: from a short form of Jaquin, pet form of Jacques, from Latin Iācōbus (English Jacob).

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