quailnoun [ C or U ]
uk/kweɪl/us/kweɪl/plural quail or quailsa small, brown bird that is shot for sport or food, or the meat of this bird:
Quails' eggs are considered to be a delicacy.
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Kinds of meat
- bacon
- biltong
- broiler
- capon
- chicken
- filet mignon
- fryer
- gammon
- guinea fowl
- ham
- pancetta
- Parma ham
- partridge
- pastrami
- pheasant
- squab
- trotter
- turkey
- veal
- venison
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Ducks, geese & game birds
quailverb [ I ]
uk/kweɪl/us/kweɪl/literaryto feel or show fear; to want to be able to move away from something because you fear it:
Charlie quailed at the sound of his mother's angry voice.
She quailed before her boss's anger.
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Afraid
- afraid
- be like a deer/rabbit caught in the headlights idiom
- bottle
- bottle out
- cower
- fear for sb/sth
- fearfully
- horror-struck
- in terror of your life idiom
- intimidated
- panic
- panic-stricken
- panicky
- pants
- quake
- terrified
- terror
- terror-stricken
- unconfident
- worst
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