queck
English
Etymology
See quinch. Possibly onomatopoeic.
Verb
queck (third-person singular simple present quecks, present participle quecking, simple past and past participle quecked)
- (obsolete) To stir; to move; to wince in pain.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for queck in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)