quitch

Quitch-grass or wiregrass, Burmuda grass, white potato and artichoke are examples of underground stems.

Well, he would go on: probably the well-remembered name of Kla-quitch would make it all right.

What was Kla-quitch, with his painted sticks and bones, compared with him, if only he were the possessor of this marvel!

All the things his father, old Kla-quitch, the medicine-man, used to do were nothing to this.

That odious play-acting business was at an end—at least, so far as Judith, who was the vicious quitch in it, was concerned.