different between quail vs quarl

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kwe?l/
• Rhymes: -e?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English quaylen, from Middle Dutch queilen, qu?len, from Old Dutch *quelan, from Proto-West Germanic *kwelan, from Proto-Germanic *kwelan? (“to suffer”). Doublet of queal.

Alternative forms

• quele (obsolete)
• queal (obsolete)

Verb

quail (third-person singular simple present quails, present participle quailing, simple past and past participle quailed)

1. (intransitive) To waste away; to fade, to wither [from 15th c.]
2. (transitive, now rare) To daunt or frighten (someone) [from 16th c.]
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia: or, Buried Alive: A Novel, London; Boston, Mass.: Faber and Faber, ?ISBN; republished in The Avignon Quintet, London: Faber, published 1992, ?ISBN, page 358:

     To tell the truth the prospect rather quailed him – wandering about in the gloomy corridors of a nunnery.

3. (intransitive) To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful. [from 16th c.]
4. (intransitive) Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, to give way. [from 16th c.]

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English quayle, quaile, quaille, from Anglo-Norman quaille, from Late Latin quaccola (“quail”).

Noun

quail (plural quails or quail)

1. Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.
   • 1954, Wildlife Review (issues 75-83, page 44)

     Quail require little water, so there is no point to putting in a guzzler if there is any permanent water within travel range.

2. (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
3. (obsolete) A prostitute, so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• partridge

Etymology 3

From Middle English quaylen, qwaylen, from Old French coaillier, from Latin co?gul?re. Doublet of coagulate.

Verb

quail (third-person singular simple present quails, present participle quailing, simple past and past participle quailed)

1. (obsolete) To curdle or coagulate, as milk does.

Anagrams

• quali

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kw??(?)l/

Etymology 1

From German Qualle.

Noun

quarl (plural quarls)

1. (archaic) A medusa or jellyfish.
   • 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay

     The jellied quarl that flings / At once a thousand streaming stings.

   • '1839, American Quarterly Review - Volume 19

     The quarl wraps around him his long arms.

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Related to quarrel, a kind of tile?”)

Noun

quarl (plural quarls)

1. A fire-resistant channel for a burner in a boiler or furnace.