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▪ I. quackle, v.1 Obs. exc. dial.|ˈkwæk(ə)l|
[Imitative: cf. quack n.3]
trans. and intr. To choke.
1622S. Ward Woe to Drunkards (1627) 22 The drinke or something in the cup quackled him, stucke so in his throat, that..[it] strangled him presently. 1655W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. i. (1665) 72 God knowes, thou art almost quackled with thy teares. 1806Bloomfield Wild Flowers Poems (1845) 221 Some quack'ling cried, ‘let go your hold’; The farmers held the faster. 1865Standard 19 Sept., The verb ‘to quackle’ is used in Suffolk in reference to suffocation, when caused by ‘drink going the wrong way’, or by smoke. 1895Rye Gloss. E. Anglia, s.v. ‘My cough quackles me’. ‘He fanged her by the throat and nearly quackled her’.
▪ II. quackle, v.2|ˈkwæk(ə)l|
[In form a deriv. of quack v.2, but found earlier.]
intr. To quack, as a duck. Hence ˈquackling vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1564–78W. Bullein Dial. agst. Pest. (1888) 64 Vpon a tyme when quacklyng Duckes did speake and caklyng hennes could talke. 1825Hone Every-day Bk. I. 534 The loud..quackling of ducks..is a sign of rain. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. i. i, Simple ducks..quackle for crumbs from young royal fingers. 1865Mrs. Whitney Gayworthys I. 11 Underneath..splashed and quackled the ducks. |