Definitions for Quail

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Quail quail

Spelling: [kweyl]

IPA: /kweɪl/

Quail is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in Quail (ailqu).

Definitions for Quail

noun

1. a small, migratory, gallinaceous game bird, Coturnix coturnix, of the Old World.
2. any of several other birds of the genus Coturnix and allied genera.
3. any of various New World gallinaceous game birds of the genus Colinus and allied genera, especially the bobwhite.
4. Slang. a woman or girl.

verb (used without object)

1. to lose heart or courage in difficulty or danger; shrink with fear.

Origin of Quail

1300-50; Middle English quaille Old French Germanic; compare Dutch kwakkel quail, Middle Dutch, Middle Low German quackele; akin to quack¹

Examples for Quail

At the quail Hollow Tournament, he missed the cut, shooting a second round seven-over 79.

The plant comes from an egg, which is about the size of a quail's egg.

She signed to the Seven, and they came huddling to her like quail; she put them behind her.

Deer, dove, and quail hunting is a right of passage in the Lone Star state.

Out in the back-pasture, a quail could flutter up under his nose unharmed.

quail ran in droves and rose among the mesas like young thunder.

The sound of birds, quail, even doe, make a wild grid of noise.

Despite the lessons of the last four years, the banking sector in the U.K. is still too big to quail, let alone fail.

Here is a task before which we quail in this generation of vast vistas.

Oddly, Cheney would only manage to shoot a friend while quail hunting and, apparently, on the booze a bit too much.