couch grass

American  

[kouch gras, kooch] / ˈkaʊtʃ ˌgræs, kutʃ /

noun

1. any of various grasses, especially Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly.

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couch grass British  

/ kuːtʃ, kaʊtʃ /

noun

1. Sometimes shortened to: couch.  Also called: scutch grass.   twitch grass.   quitch grass.  a grass, Agropyron repens, with a yellowish-white creeping underground stem by which it spreads quickly: a troublesome weed

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Etymology

Origin of couch grass

1570–80; couch, variant of quitch

Example Sentences

Already clumps of couch grass are beginning to thrust up.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

They pull out couch grass and dandelions, plant green onions and a row of lettuce.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch grass: Yet this will go onward the same Though Dynasties pass.

From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert

We have, in the first rank, the couch grass, that execrable weed which three years of stubborn warfare have not succeeded in exterminating.

From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

The hostess answered: “I have nothing to do with your madness or your couch grass; pay and be off.”

From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de