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quail

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

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quiver

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kw?v?/
  • (General American, Canada) enPR: kw??v?r, IPA(key): /?kw?v??/
  • Rhymes: -?v?(?)
  • Hyphenation: qui?ver

Etymology 1

From Middle English quiver, from Anglo-Norman quivre, from Old Dutch cocare (source of Dutch koker, and cognate to Old English cocer (quiver, case)), from Proto-West Germanic *kukur (container), said to be from Hunnic, possibly from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür (leather vessel for liquids); see there for more. Replaced early modern English cocker, the inherited reflex of that West Germanic word.

Noun

quiver (plural quivers)

  1. (weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
    • 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act I, Scene I, line 271:
      Don Pedro: Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.
    • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 39:
      Arrows were carried in quiver, called also an arrow case, which served for the magazine, arrows for immediate use were worn in the girdle.
  2. (figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
    He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver.
  3. (obsolete) The collective noun for cobras.
  4. (mathematics) A multidigraph.

Derived terms

  • quiverful

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English quiver, cwiver, from Old English *cwifer, probably related to cwic (alive).

Adjective

quiver (comparative more quiver, superlative most quiver)

  1. (archaic) Nimble, active.
    • 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Part II, Act III, Scene II, line 281:
      [...] there was a little quiver fellow, and 'a would manage you his piece thus; and 'a would about and about, and come you in and come you in.

Etymology 3

From Middle English quiveren, probably from the adjective.

Verb

quiver (third-person singular simple present quivers, present participle quivering, simple past and past participle quivered)

  1. (intransitive) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion
    Synonyms: tremble, quake, shudder, shiver
    • And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.

Derived terms

  • aquiver
  • quivering
  • quiversome

Translations

References

Further reading

  • quiver on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman quivre, from Old Dutch cocare; perhaps ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür or Hunnic. Doublet of coker.

Alternative forms

  • quyver, qwyver, qwywere, qwyvere, whyver

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?kwiv?r/

Noun

quiver (plural quivers)

  1. A quiver (a receptacle for arrows)
  2. (rare, vulgar) A vulva.
Descendants
  • English: quiver
References
  • “quiver, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.

Etymology 2

From Old English *cwifer, probably related to cwic (alive).

Alternative forms

  • quyver, quyvere, cwiver

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?kwiv?r/

Adjective

quiver

  1. fast, speedy, rapid
  2. energetic, vigourous, vibrant
Descendants
  • English: quiver
References
  • “quiver, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.

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