quackern.
/ˈkwakə/, U.S. /ˈkwækər/ colloquial.
A person who or thing which makes a quacking sound, esp. a duck.
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1832 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 868/2 Let us first discuss the cacklers and the quackers.
1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 75 Jest pipe her—she turns her ogles up like a croaking quacker (dying duck).
1891 Oakland (Calif.) Daily Evening Tribune 14 Jan. 3/2 A heavy rain is all that is required to banish the quackers which at present populate the marshes.
1928 H. C. Brown In Golden Nineties i. 32 These same two quackers had won first prize at a National Quacking Championship Contest.
1965 New Statesman 18 June 980/2 The noisiest quackers have now felt a wind of deflation beginning to stir about the world and have fallen silent.
1989 Miller's Collectables Price Guide 1989–90 465/2 A plush covered Jemima Puddle Duck, one eye lacking and quacker inoperative.
2006 Observer (Nexis) 17 Sept. (Mag.) 60 I sometimes think a quacker is worth cooking just for the skin and mess of bones to pluck, nibble and suck.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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