quail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kweɪl/
ipa: /ˈkweɪ.əl/
rhymes: -eɪl
homophone: quale
Forms: form: quails
form: quail
Etymology: From Middle English quayle, quaile, quaille, from Anglo-Norman quaille, from Late Latin quaccola (“quail”).
(prostitute): So called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.
Senses: examples: text: Quail require little water, so there is no point to putting in a guzzler if there is any permanent water within travel range.
ref: 1954, Wildlife Review, numbers 75-83, page 44:
glosses: Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.
glosses: The meat from this bird eaten as food.
examples: text: Her's Agamemnon, an honeſt fellow inough and one that loues quailes, but hee has not ſo much braine as eare-wax, […]
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. Excellently Expressing the Beginning of their Loues, with the Conceited Wooing of Pandarus, Prince of Licia, London: Imprinted by G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, and are to be sold at the spred Eagle in Paules Church-yeard, ouer against the great North doore, published 1609, →OCLC, act V, scene 1:
glosses: A prostitute.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Philortyx fasciatus
word: banded quail
taxonomic: Coturnix coromandelica
word: black-breasted quail
alt: Synoicus chinensis
word: blue-breasted quail
alt: Synoicus adansonii
word: blue quail
taxonomic: Colinus virginianus
word: bobwhite quail
alt: Synoicus ypsilophorus
word: brown quail
taxonomic: Turnix spp. etc.
word: bustard quail
word: button quail
word: button-quail
taxonomic: Turnix spp. etc.
word: buttonquail
word: California quail
taxonomic: Callipepla californica
word: California valley quail
taxonomic: Coturnix gomerae
word: Canary Islands quail
taxonomic: Coturnix coturnix
word: common quail
word: dying quail
taxonomic: Callipepla douglasii
word: elegant quail
taxonomic: Coturnix coturnix
word: European quail
word: Gambel's quail
word: harlequin quail
word: helmet quail
word: Himalayan quail
word: Japanese quail
alt: Synoicus chinensis
word: king quail
word: marsh quail
word: Maryland quail
word: masked quail
word: Mearns quail
word: migratory quail
word: Montezuma quail
word: mountain quail
taxonomic: Odontophoridae spp.
word: New World quail
word: New Zealand quail
word: ocellated quail
alt: Coturnicini spp.
word: Old World quail
word: painted quail
word: pectoral quail
taxonomic: Pedionomus spp.
word: plover quail
word: quail-dove
taxonomic: Starnoenas spp.
word: quail dove
word: quailer
word: Quailgate
word: quail hawk
word: Quail Hollow
word: quailish
word: quail pipe
word: quail-pipe
taxonomic: Ortyxelos meiffrenii
word: quail-plover
word: quail-thrush
taxonomic: Coturnix coromandelica
word: rain quail
word: San Quentin quail
word: scaled quail
word: sea quail
taxonomic: Arenaria melanocephala
word: seaquail
taxonomic: Callipepla spp.
word: shell quail
alt: Synoicus ypsilophorus
word: silver quail
taxonomic: Dactylortyx thoracicus
word: singing quail
alt: Synoicus monorthonyx
word: Snow Mountain quail
taxonomic: Lagopus leucura
word: snow quail
word: stubble quail (Coturnix pectoralis
alt: Synoicus ypsilophorus
word: swamp quail
alt: Synoicus ypsilophorus
word: Tasmanian quail
taxonomic: Rhynchortyx cinctus
word: tawny-faced quail
taxonomic: Callipepla californica
word: valley quail
taxonomic: Colinus virginianus
word: Virginia quail
word: wood quail (Odontophorus spp
Related terms: partridge
bevy