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Quail

Definition: Quail

Quail

Noun

1. (game bird) flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised.

2. Small gallinaceous game birds.

Verb

1. Draw back, as with fear.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "quail" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)


Specialty Definition: Quail

DomainDefinition

19th Century Satire

V. t., To shrink--a characteristic of the bird when ordered in a restaurant. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.

Dream Interpretation

To see quails in your dream, is a very favorable omen, if they are alive; if dead, you will undergo serious ill luck.
To shoot quail, foretells that ill feelings will be shown by you to your best friends.
To eat them, signifies extravagance in your personal living. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Literature

Quail A bird, said to be very salacious, hence a prostitute or courtesan.
"Here's Agamemnon, an honest fellow enough, and one that loves quails."- Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, v. 1.
The Ilaid of Homer is based on the story that Agamemnon, being obliged to give up his mistress, took the mistress of Achilles to supply her place. This brought about a quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles, and Achilles refused to have anything more to do with the siege of Troy. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Specialty Definition: Quail, Texas

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Quail is a town located in Collingsworth County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 33.

Geography


Quail is located at 34°55'8" North, 100°23'13" West (34.918915, -100.386829)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 8.2 km² (3.2 mi²). 8.2 km² (3.2 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 33 people, 11 households, and 9 families residing in the town. The population density is 4.0/km² (10.4/mi²). There are 16 housing units at an average density of 1.9/km² (5.0/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 75.76% White, 3.03% African American, 21.21% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 11 households out of which 36.4% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 90.9% are married couples living together, 0.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 9.1% are non-families. 9.1% of all households are made up of individuals and 9.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 3.00 and the average family size is 3.10. In the town the population is spread out with 24.2% under the age of 18, 12.1% from 18 to 24, 21.2% from 25 to 44, 21.2% from 45 to 64, and 21.2% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 175.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 150.0 males. The median income for a household in the town is $19,464, and the median income for a family is $19,464. Males have a median income of $30,000 versus $26,250 for females. The per capita income for the town is $13,456. 0.0% of the population and 0.0% of families are below the poverty line.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Quail, Texas."

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Synonyms: Quail

Synonyms: cringe (v), flinch (v), funk (v), recoil (v), shrink (v), squinch (v), wince (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Quail

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Cowardice

Verb: quail; (fear); be cowardly; Adjective:, be a coward; Noun: funk; cower,skulk, sneak; flinch, shy, fight shy, slink, turn tail; run away; (avoid); show, the white feather.

Fear

Tremble, shake; shiver, shiver in one's shoes; shudder, flutter; shake like an aspen leaf, tremble like an aspen leaf, tremble all over; quake, quaver, quiver, quail.

Size

Large as life; plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge; fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Quail

English words defined with "quail": bevy, Bustard quailColin, Coturnix, Coturnix communis, Coturnix coturnixfamily Turnicidaegenus Coturnix, genus Lofortyx, genus Oreortyx, genus TurnixLofortyxmigratory quail, mountain partridge, mountain quailOreortyx, Oreortyx picta palmeripartridge, Pedionomus torquatus, plain wanderer, Plumed partridgeQuail pipe, Quail snipe, Qualled, Qualling, QuaydRain quail, Rasorialsparrow hawk, striped button quailTetraonid, Turnicidae, Turnix, Turnix sylvaticaWood quail. (references)
Specialty definitions using "quail": GrouseSporting Seasons in England. (references)
Etymologies containing "quail": Turnix. (references)

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Modern Usage: Quail

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Quentin Quail (1946)

The Crackpot Quail (1941)

Quail Hunt (1935)

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Commercial Usage: Quail

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Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

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Image Slideshow: Quail

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Photo Album: Quail

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Four campgrounds in New Mexico Camps at stations Corral, Thorn, Guitar, and Quail Triangulation party of Wilbur Porter. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Scale quail perched on post in Eastern New Mexico ranch. Credit: Gary Kramer.

Gamble quail in eastern New Mexico. Credit: Gary Kramer.

Mike Davis a quail farmer holds a quail on the Manchester Farms near Camden, SC. Credit: USDA.

Quail in one of the growing houses on the Manchester Farms near Camden, SC. Credit: USDA.

Quail eggs from one of the hen houses on the Manchester Farms near Camden, SC. Credit: USDA.

Joyce Watkins loads quail eggs onto a rack after cleaning and checking them. Credit: USDA.

Brenda Tidwell gathers quail eggs and places them into trays. Credit: USDA.

Quail on watch! He is sitting on a bush found at the Parashant National Monument. Credit: Lynn Chamberlain.

Quail. Lakeview District. Credit: Terry Spivey.

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Sounds Captioned with "Quail".

PlayCaption
Quail call.
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Use in Literature: Quail

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The wall of the quail abrupt, confused, mingled with vapour, suddenly lost to sight, seemed like an escarpment of the infinite.

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Usage Frequency: Quail

"Quail" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 68.82% of the time. "Quail" is used about 93 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (common)68.82%6442,009
Lexical Verb (base form)19.35%1882,615
Lexical Verb (infinitive)11.83%11106,044
                    Total100.00%93N/A

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Name Usage Frequency: Quail

The following table summarizes the usage of "quail" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
QuailLast name40021,309
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: Quail


1. Quail, TX
Zip Code(s): 79251
Country: USA

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Expressions: Quail

Expressions using "quail": bobwhite quail Bustard quail Button quail California quail fat as a quail Marsh quail Maryland quail Mearn's montezuma quail migratory quail mountain quail old World quail quail at quail brush quail bush quail call quail dove quail hawk Quail Heights quail pipe quail snipe Quail Valley rain quail sea quail striped button quail Virginia quail wood quail. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "quail": quail-call, quail-hunters, quail-hunting, quail-like, quail-pipe, quail-song.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Quail

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

quail

653

quail hollow resort

27

bob white quail

118

coturnix quail

25

quail hunting

117

quail run

25

quail eggs

109

botanical garden quail

24

button quail

87

hill irvine quail

23

raising quail

77

quail for sale

23

quail picture

64

bob quail raising white

23

quail unlimited

62

georgia quail hunting

22

mall quail springs

60

baby quail

22

quail hollow

52

texas quail hunting

21

california quail

42

quail inn

19

quail ridge

40

quail ridge golf course

18

quail lodge

39

eggs hatching quail

18

quail creek

38

california valley quail

17

quail valley

32

mountain quail

17

quail recipe

31

quail cage

16

quail hill

30

quail creek golf course

16

quail bird

30

quail incubator

16

gamble quail

29

quail chick

16

farm quail

29

lake quail

15
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Modern Translation: Quail

Language Translations for "quail"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

trembem (dread, funk, get the wind up, give the willies), thëllëzë (beautiful girl, grouse, Partridge, pintail), shkurtë, mish thëllëze. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ذوى (consume, decay, flag, wilt, wither), ‏ذبل (consume, etiolate, fade, flag, languish, sear, shell, shrivel, wilt, wither, wizen), ‏جبن (cheese, funk), ‏السمان طائر, ‏السلوي طائر, ‏إرتجف (chill, dither, jar, palpitate, quake, quaver, quiver, shake, shiver, shudder, tremble). (various references)

   

Bavarian

  

wachtl. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

студентка, свивам се от страх, трепвам (blench, flinch, jerk, start, twitch, wince), треперя от страх, вид яребица, отдръпвам се (back away, dodge, ease off, ebb, flow back, move away, move up, pull over, recoil, retire, shrink away, shrink back, stand aside, stand off, step aside), пъдпъдък (bob-white), потрепвам (flinch, flutter, thrill, tremble, whiffle), плаша се (be timid, flinch, scare, shy). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

鹌鹑 (quails), , 鵪鶉 , . (various references)

   

Czech

  

třást se (dodder, quaver, quiver, shake, shiver, shudder, tremble, vibrate, wobble), ochabnout (become flabby, decline, decrease, fizzle out, flag, sag, slacken), křepelka, chvìt se (flutter, judder, pulsate, quake, quaver, quiver, shake, shudder, tingle, tremble, vibrate, waver). (various references)

   

Danish

  

underart af harlekintopvagtel (Mearn's montezuma quail, Montezuma quail). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

kwartel. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

koturno. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پژمرده شدن (Droop, Languish, Miff), مردن (Decease, Demise, Dying, Expire, Passaway, Perish), لرزیدن (Dither, Dodder, Flicker, Quake, Quiver, Shake, Shiver, Shudder, Throb, Tremble, Trill, Vibrate), وشم , ترسیدن (Abhor, Bash, Scare), ازمیدان دررفتن , شانه خالی کردن (Weasel), دلمه شدن (Clabber, Clot, Curd, Curdle, Jell), بی اثربودن , بلدرچین , بدبده . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

viiriäinen. (various references)

   

French

  

caille. (various references)

   

German

  

Wachtel. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ορτύκι. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

שלו (his, own). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fürj. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

burung puyuh. (various references)

   

Italian

  

quaglia. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

. (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

うずら. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

""라기 (Bobwhite, quails). (various references)

   

Manx

  

quayl, failleil ayns spyrryd. (various references)

   

Maya

  

beech. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

vaktel, bli redd. (various references)

   

Papago

  

kakaichu. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ailquay

   

Portuguese

  

vacilar (boggle, chop, crane, diddle, falter, flinch, fluctuate, hand back, hesitate, niddle-noddle, nutate, oscillate, pendulate, quiver, repose, shilly-shally, shuffle, stagger, sway, teeter, toddle, totter, tremble, vacillate, waver), titubear (blench, diddle, dodder, flinch, hesitate, nutate, reel, stagger, toddle, totter, waver), sentir desânimo, retrair-se, recuar (backpedal, blench, boggle, crawfish, flinch, flunk, indent, kick, off, recede, recoil, retire, retreat), intimidar-se, desanimar (chill, collapse, damp, deject, depress, despair, despond, discount, discourage, dishearten, dismay, dispirit, drench, flatten, throw cold water on, unman, unnerve), codorniz, codorna. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

tremura (cower, dither, falter, flicker, palpitate, quake, quaver, quiver, reel, ripple, rock, shake, shiver, shudder, thrill, throb, tremble, vibrate, waver, wobble), studentã (co-ed), prepeliţã, fi cuprins de fricã, a-l apuca tremur. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

струсить (cry craven), перепелка, перепел, дрогнуть (falter). (various references)

   

Sepedi

  

khwiri. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

prepelica, obeshrabriti se (lose heart), klonuti (droop, flag, languish). (various references)

   

Shona

  

chihuta. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

codorniz, acobardarse (be chicken, be frightened, cower, flinch, funk). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vaktel, förlora modet. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

umudunu yitirmek, korkuya kapılmak (be possessed by fear, be seized with fear, be taken with fear, get the wind up), korkmak (be afraid, be afraid of, be appalled, be frightened, be scared of, dread, fear, flinch, funk, get a fright, get cold feet, have a fright, have cold feet, scare, show the white feather, shy, sweat blood, take fright), cesaretini kaybetmek (despond, lose heart, lose one's nerve, wilt), bıldırcın, ürkmek (balk at, be appalled, blench, boggle, dread, get a fright, have a fright, jump, lose one's nerve, scare, shy, start, startle, take fright, wince), ümitsizliğe kapılmak. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

куропатка, завагатися, перепел. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

lưới bẫy chim cun cút (quail-net). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

sofliar. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Quail

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

coturnices, coturnicum, coturnix, ortigometra, ortygometra, ortygometran. (various references)

Middle Dutch1100-1500

quelen. (various references)

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Derivations & Misspellings: Quail

Derivations

Words beginning with "quail": quailed, quailing, quails. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Quail" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aquaglo, Aquil, Equanil, Equilia, qai, qail, Qaim, qal, qali, qawaali, Qianli, qoil, qrail, quaa, quadi, quae, quaeh, quael, quai, quaia, quaib, quaid, quaie, quaif, quaig, quaila, Quaile, quaille, quaim, quain, quaip, quais, quait, quaix, qual, Qualao, quald, quale, qualf, qualg, quali, qualia, qualie, qualif, qualk, Qualo, qualp, quani, quao, quari, quaril, Quarll, Quasim, quawl, queal, Queel, quegl, quei, Quenild, queol, quia, quiad, quial, quiar, quiaz, quiel, quij, quil, Quila, quilb, quild, quilf, Quilici, quilk, quiln, quilp, quim, quiol, quiwl, qulil, qumill, quol, quranic, quril, Quwait, Quwatli, squaill, uai. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Quail"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "quail" (pronounced kwā"l)
4k w ā" lquale.
3-w ā" lwail, Wale, whale.

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Anagrams: Quail

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-l-q-u"

-1 letter: quai.

-2 letters: ail, qua.

-3 letters: ai, al, la, li.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-l-q-u"
 

+1 letter: quails, qualia.

 

+2 letters: alfaqui, aliquot, liquate, pasquil, quailed, quakily, qualify, quality, quillai, quinela, quintal, siliqua, squalid, squilla, tequila.

 

+3 letters: alfaquin, alfaquis, aliquant, aliquots, applique, aquarial, aquiline, calquing, equaling, equalise, equality, equalize, exequial, liquated, liquates, pasquils, quailing, quaintly, qualmier, qualmish, quantile, quartile, quaylike, queasily, quillaia, quillais, quillaja, quinelas, quinella, quiniela, quintals, requital, siliquae, siliquas, squillae, squillas, tequilas, tranquil.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Sounds
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Usage Frequency
11. Names: Frequency
12. Cities
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Translations: Ancient
17. Derivations
18. Rhymes
19. Anagrams
20. Bibliography


  

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