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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English querkenen, equivalent to querk +‎ -en.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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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