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quawk

noun quawks

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

verb quawks · quawking · 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."

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@misc{quawk_2026,
  title = {quawk},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/quawk},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}