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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Birds quailquail1 /kweɪl/ noun [countable, uncountable] HBBa small fat bird with a short tail that is hunted for food or sport, or the meat from this birdExamples from the Corpusquail• Does that mean that a man is a better machine for running than a quail, or a chipmunk or mouse?• Combine remaining butter, mustard, honey, garlic, and lemon juice and slather over quail.• Tuck wings behind back and lightly season quail inside and out with salt and black pepper.• Season quail lightly with salt and pepper.• If the quail have been reared with siblings, both sexes prefer to mate with first cousins.• Because transplanted quail cells will behave normally in chick embryos, she realized she had an invaluable natural marker.• For his creation Malicki grills whole quail on long grapevine cuttings.quailquail2 verb [intransitive] literaryFRIGHTENED to be afraid and show it by shaking a little bit or moving back slightly SYN shrinkquail at She quailed visibly at the sight of the prison walls.→ See Verb table Examples from the Corpusquail• For the first time I quailed...• I felt like Frankenstein, quailing before the monster I had created.• It would seem that even senior officers were quailing, but go they did.• Though he quailed inwardly, he managed not to flinch.• Even now there were times when Valerie quailed, when she felt crushed.Origin quail1 (1300-1400) Old French quaille, from Medieval Latin quaccula quail2 (1400-1500) quail "to curdle" ((15-19 centuries)), from Latin coagulare; → COAGULATE
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Verb table
quail
Simple Form
Present
I, you, we, they quail
he, she, it quails
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Past
I, you, he, she, it, we, they quailed
Present perfect
I, you, we, they have quailed
he, she, it has quailed
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they had quailed
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will quail
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have quailed
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Continuous Form
Present
I am quailing
he, she, it is quailing
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you, we, they are quailing
Past
I, he, she, it was quailing
you, we, they were quailing
Present perfect
I, you, we, they have been quailing
he, she, it has been quailing
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been quailing
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be quailing
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been quailing
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