quitter

IPA: kwˈɪtɝ

(now rare outside Jamaica) Matter flowing from a wound or sore; pus.
(obsolete) Scoria of tin.
One who quits, as:
One who gives in.
One who succeeds in desisting from a vice, especially smoking, drinking, or drugging.
(archaic) A leaver.
(obsolete) A deliverer.
(farriery) Alternative spelling of quittor (“fistulous wound at the top of a horse's foot”) [A chronic abscess, or fistula of the coronet, in a horse's foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coffin bone.]

Examples of "quitter" in Sentences

How about this hypocrisy … … a quitter is a quitter.
To be branded a quitter is a quick ticket to waivers.
In translation, the handprompter quitter is dumb like rocks.
Actually, her being a quitter is my favorite thing about her.
Just the fact that 12% chose Palin-the-quitter is enough to make me giggle ...
But I would appeal to you all to avoid using the word quitter, which is a conclusory pejorative tell.
In a country where the likes of a W gets two terms and a quitter is regarded as some sort of viable expert, it is not surprising.
When a loser and a quitter is put on a pedestal by an adoring public who value her looks more than her brains, you know we are all in deep, deep trouble as a nation .....
But at least he was not what he calls a quitter, and as more than once he had an intense desire to return to civilisation, he deserves much credit for carrying out his resolution.