apparently Anglo-Norman form of Old Frenchçoche /tsɔtʃə/ , modern Frenchsouche, Norman-Picardchouque (whence diminutive chouquet): of unknown origin. Not known in real English use as an ordinary noun…
apparently Anglo-Norman form of Old Frenchçoche /tsɔtʃə/ , modern Frenchsouche, Norman-Picardchouque (whence diminutive chouquet): of unknown origin. Not known in real English use as an ordinary noun; survives in the town-name of Ashby-de-la-Zouch (Leicestershire).
Meaning & use
Obsolete.
1358–1676
A tree stump.
[1220
De auxilio faciendo burgensibus Salop. de veteribus zuchis & de mortuo bosco.
Close Rolls 4 Henry III memb. 10 (1833) vol. I. 418/1]
[1223
Omnes Zuches aridos qui Anglice vocantur stovenes infra Haiam nostram de Beskewood [now Bestwood].
Plac. Forest. in Com. Nott. (Cowell 1672)]
1358
Dedimus..Ricardo de la Vache Senescallo foreste nostre de Shirewod omnia ligna vocata zouches in Beskwode.
Patent Roll, 32 Edward III 26 June (P.R.O.: C 66/254) m. 5
1672
Zuche, Zucheus, Stips siccus & aridus, A withered or dry stock of Wood.
T. Manley, Νομοθετης: Cowell's Interpreter sig. Bbbb1b