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▪ I. quawk, n. U.S.|kwɔːk|
Also quark, quauk, quock.
[Imitative; cf. quawk v. and squawk n.]
1. The black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax, which is widely distributed in temperate and tropical regions; = qua-bird.
1844J. E. DeKay Zool. N.Y. II. 227 The Black-crowned Night Heron, or Quawk,..derives its popular name from the deep gutteral cry. 1867Amer. Naturalist I. 344 Many..were all agog to cover themselves with glory by shooting a quawk. 1877W. Whitman Specimen Days (1882–3) 100, I find [in New Jersey]..Cheewinks, Quawks, Ground robins. 1895F. M. Chapman Handbk. Birds Eastern N. Amer. 136 Black-crowned Night Heron; Quawk. 1926A. C. Bent Life Hist. N. Amer. Marsh Birds 197 The familiar night heron or ‘quawk’ is one of the best known and most widely distributed of our herons. 1962R. S. Palmer Handbk. N. Amer. Birds I. 475 Characteristic quock of this heron has been widely used as a vernacular name: ‘squawk’, ‘quock’, etc. 1968Times 28 Feb. 11/7 During a recent expedition to the Falkland Islands I was lucky enough to see and hear..the Quark. They are birds of great beauty, heron-like in appearance.
2. The cry of a duck or night-heron; = quack n.2
1863‘G. Hamilton’ Gala-Days 73 For the heavy booming of cannon rose the ‘quauk!’ of ducks. 1895F. M. Chapman Handbk. Birds Eastern N. Amer. 137 Occasionally they [sc. black-crowned night herons] utter a loud, hoarse quawk, the origin of their common name. 1962R. S. Palmer Handbk. N. Amer. Birds I. 476 The Black-crown's note can be expressed as quock.
▪ II. quawk, v. dial.|kwɔːk|
[Imitative; cf. cawk n.2]
intr. To caw. Hence quawking vbl. n.
1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 24 Rous'd by quawking of the flopping crows. Ibid. II. 121 The rooks..Quawk clamorous to the spring's approach. 1879–In dial. glossaries (Leic., Shropsh., etc.). |