▪ I. † queck, n. Obs. rare—1.
? A knock, whack.
| 1554 Enterl. Youth A ij, If I fal I catche a quecke, I may fortune to breke my necke. |
▪ II. † queck v.1 Obs.
Also 4–5 quek.
[Imitative: cf. Du. kwekken, and see quack v.2]
intr. To quack, as a duck. Hence ˈquecking vbl. n.
| 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. |
▪ III. † queck, v.2 Obs. rare—1.
? = quetch v.
| a 1550 Image Hypocr. iii. in Skelton's Wks. (1843) II. 436/2 Not for his life to quecke [rime necke] But stande vpp, like a bosse. [1755 in Johnson (and hence in some later dicts.), with quot. from Bacon Ess., in which however the correct reading is queching]. |
▪ IV. queck
see queke.