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quawk

quawk noun: the black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax.

Noun

quawk (plural quawks)

  1. (US) The black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax.
  2. The harsh call of this or other birds.

Verb

quawk (third-person singular simple present quawks, present participle quawking, simple past and past participle quawked)

  1. Of birds, to give loud, harsh vocalisations.
    • […] they were rejoiced to see one of the two lost nestlings sitting on the window ledge near his old home. […] "I have much to tell, father," said the young one; "but I am so exhausted, my food having been of the scantiest, that I have hardly breath to quawk."1873, A. C. Chambers, Life underground, in the church tower, the woods, and the old keep, page 71
    • The old crows quawked for men had cut / Among the oak wood trees.1964, John Clare, The Later Poems of John Clare, page 203

Forms of quawk

Noun
pluralquawks
Verb
third-person singular presentquawks
present participlequawking
past participlequawked
pastquawked

Questions about quawk

What does quawk mean?
Quawk means the black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax.
What part of speech is quawk?
Quawk can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of quawk?
The plural of quawk is quawks.

Words near quawk in the dictionary

  1. quavers
  2. quavery
  3. quaves
  4. quaving
  5. quaw
  6. quawk
  7. quawked
  8. quawking
  9. quawks
  10. quawmire
  11. quawmires

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