quawk — 영어 사전

명사

1. The black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax.

   용법

   • 미국 용법

2. The harsh call of this or other birds.

동사

1. Of birds, to give loud, harsh vocalisations.

   예문

   더 많은 예문 (1)

   […] 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."

   The old crows quawked for men had cut / Among the oak wood trees.

   더 많은 예문 (1)

   How often, at an outdoor barbecue, or when having drinks on the terrace after some Washington dinner party, have I heard, above the buzz of conversation, night herons quawking overhead on their way from Rock Creek Park[.]