Obs. Also 4–5 quek. [Imitative: cf. Du. kwekken, and see QUACK v.2] intr. To quack, as a duck. Hence Quecking vbl. sb.
c. 1325. Gloss. W. de Bibbesw., in Rel. Ant., II. 79. [The gander] quekez, taroile. Quekine, taroil.
1492. in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr., LXXXIX. 285. He toke a gose fast by the nek, And the goose thoo began to quek.
1573. Twyne, Æneid., X. D d iv. Whom stars of heauen obeyen at beck … and chattring birds with tong that queck.
a. 1693. Motteux, Rabelais, III. xiii. 107. The … pioling of Pelicanes, quecking of Ducks,… and wailing of Turtles.
