Quawk

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax. US
  2. 2
    The harsh call of this or other birds.
Verb
  1. 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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"[…] 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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