quaake

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Verb[edit]

quaake (third-person singular simple present quaakes, present participle quaaking, simple past and past participle quaaked)

  1. Obsolete spelling of quack (“make a noise like a duck”)
    • 1785, James Ridgway, A Dictionary of Literary Conversation‎[1]:
      The duck drinks, plays in the water with her bill, picks her feathers, and quaakes like a living one.

Noun[edit]

quaake (plural quaakes)

  1. Obsolete spelling of quack (“noise made by a duck”)

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Verb[edit]

quaake

  1. Alternative form of quaken
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