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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)
- (intransitive) To waste away; to fade, to wither [from 15th c.]
- (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.
- 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:
- (intransitive) To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful. [from 16th c.]
- (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)
- 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.
- 1954, Wildlife Review (issues 75-83, page 44)
- (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
- (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)
- (obsolete) To curdle or coagulate, as milk does.
Anagrams
- quali
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unquailing
English
Etymology
un- +? quailing
Adjective
unquailing (comparative more unquailing, superlative most unquailing)
- Without quailing; brave.
Derived terms
- unquailingly
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