quack
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- noun
- /kwæk/
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- Quack, quack, quack! Quack, quack, quack, quack!
- quack of a duck
- a loud quack
- went "quack"
It's got a little bit of the quack when I have the volume down when it's up.
- It's got a little bit of the quack when I have the volume down when it's up.
- I also want to give a quack, A quack, quack, quack, quack, quack here and a quack quack there, OK.
Examples
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Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack!
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Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack.
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The duck goes quack, quack, quack, quack
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Duck says, "I go quack! quack! I'm a duck!"
Fiction book (1993) -
In the bath, the toy boats went "brrrm," and the rubber duck went "quack, qua-a-ck," and the children laughed and splashed.
Fiction book (1997) -
Across the creek, a flock of ducks flapped out of the scrub with loud, scolding quacks.
Fiction book (1997) -
The children laughed as the duck quacked loudly in the pond.
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As she walked by the lake, she heard a duck quack in the distance.
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When we visited the farm, the ducks started to quack as they waddled towards us.
Synonyms
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4.9
A loud, harsh sound often made by a bird
A word children use for a duck that copies its sound
Compounds
- UK
A common weed with long stems under the ground that spreads quickly through lawns
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Etymology
Quack for the duck sound copies the noise the bird makes and people wrote that noise as 'quack'. So a quack is simply the harsh call a duck makes.