quaake

English

Verb

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

quaake (plural quaakes)

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

Anagrams

Middle English

Verb

quaake

  1. alternative form of quaken
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