v. t. [ AS. cweðan, imp cwæð, pl. cw&aemacr_;don; akin to OS. queðan, OHG. quethan, quedan, Icel. kveða, Goth. qiþan. √22. Cf. Bequeath. ] Said; spoke; uttered; -- used only in the first and third persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, the word or words said being the object; as, quoth I, quoth he. “Let me not live, quoth he.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

interj. [ For quoth 'a, said he, 'a being corrupted from he. ] Indeed; forsooth. [ 1913 Webster ]

To affront the blessed hillside drabs and thieves
With mended morals, quotha, -- fine new lives ! Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]