quawk
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Of birds, to give loud, harsh vocalisations.
Example Sentences
- "[…] 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.""
- "The old crows quawked for men had cut / Among the oak wood trees."
- "How often, at an outdoor barbecue, or when having drinks on the terrace after some Washington dinner party, have I heard, above the buzz of conversation, night herons quawking overhead on their way from Rock Creek Park[.]"
Usage
- American usage