[Imitative: cf. prec. and QUARK v.]
1. intr. Of birds: To croak harshly; to squawk.
1871. W. Morris, in Mackail, Life (1899), I. 235. I heard a heron ‘squark’ just now.
1897. Mary Kingsley, W. Africa, 236. By no means all the birds here only screech and squark. Several of them have very lovely notes.
2. trans. To utter in croaks.
1891. Chambers’ Jrnl., 31 Oct., 703. The crows will come and sit round, squarking sarcastic remarks.
Hence Squarking vbl. sb.
1897. Mary Kingsley, W. Africa, 92. Save for this squarking of the parrots the swamps are silent all the day.
