Associations to the word «Quillet»

Wiktionary

QUILLET, noun. A quibble, an evasive distinction.
QUILLET, noun. (now regional) A small plot of land; historically: a strip of land that together with others like it formed a larger field.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats