[kwɪt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- leave (a place), usually permanently
(e.g: hippies finally quit two sites in Hampshire last night)

- behave in a specified way
(e.g: quit yourselves like men, and fight)


Phrases:
- quit hold of

Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘set free’): from Old French quiter (verb), quite (adjective), from Latin quietus, past participle of quiescere ‘be still’, from quies ‘quiet’

[kwɪt], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- rid of
(e.g: I want to be quit of him)


Phrases:
- quit hold of

Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘set free’): from Old French quiter (verb), quite (adjective), from Latin quietus, past participle of quiescere ‘be still’, from quies ‘quiet’

[kwɪt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- used in names of various small songbirds found in the Caribbean area, e.g. bananaquit, grassquit


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 19th century: probably imitative