Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
querk .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Prov. Eng. To stifle or choke.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
querk . - verb intransitive To
grunt ;moan .
Etymologies
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From Middle English querkenen, equivalent to querk + -en.
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Examples
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I'd like to querken your quiddles on the quizzities of the letter Q because they aren't queme and leave me quaddling and full of querimony.
'Roads to Quoz' 2008
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Here's a quorum of such quatches ripe for revival, ready for your quaintance: quaddle (grumble), quizzity (oddity), querken (stifle), quiddle (dawdle), querimony (complaint), queme (pleasant), quetch (go), queeve (twist in a road).
'Roads to Quoz' 2008
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