Obs. Also Sc. 6 quaik, 8 -ck. [Imitative: see QUACK, and cf. Du. kwaken, G. quaken to croak, quack.] = QUACK int. and v.

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c. 1529.  Skelton, E. Rummyng, 506. Quake, quake, sayd the duck.

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1549.  Compl. Scot., vi. 39. The dukis cryit quaik.

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1567.  Harman, Caveat (1869), 83. A quakinge chete or a red shanke, a drake or ducke.

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1785.  Burns, Addr. Deil, viii. An eldritch, stoor quaick, quaick.

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