quint, a black-haired youth of twenty, gave a repressed whoop.
"It would 'a' been luckier if they hadn't hit him at all, quint," answered Jumbo dryly.
She paused a moment; then she added: "quint was much too free."
So he goes to his broker, who goes to a big feller, who goes to quint, who goes to us.
Doc Curfoot climbed in and took the wheel; quint followed him.
“I thought Captain quint very interesting,” ventured Ruhannah.
I shouted; and quint turned and looked at me, and he smiled.
She paused a moment; then she added: quint was much too free.
quint thought for a moment, and then he said: "Those who have the gift."
quint shook his head impatiently, apparently preoccupied with other thoughts.
1520s, "a tax of one-fifth," from Middle French quint, from Latin quintus "the fifth," ordinal to quinque "five" (see quinque-). Used in English of various groups of five since 17c. First attested 1935 as a shortening of quintuplet (American English; British English prefers quin); used originally of the Dionne quintuplets, born May 28, 1934, near Callander, Ontario, Canada.
