On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 17:04 -0500, Paul Cole wrote:
> Not a feature related question, but one that's been on my mind. Where
> does the name Quackle come from?
>
And for those without OED access:
quackle, v.1
Obs. exc. dial.
[Imitative: cf. QUACK n.3]
trans. and intr. To choke.
1622 S. WARD Woe to Drunkards (1627) 22 The drinke or something in the
cup quackled him, stucke so in his throat, that..[it] strangled him
presently. 1655 W. GURNALL Chr. in Arm. I. (1665) 72 God knowes, thou
art almost quackled with thy teares. 1806 BLOOMFIELD Wild Flowers Poems
(1845) 221 Some quack'ling cried, ‘let go your hold’; The farmers held
the faster. 1865 Standard 19 Sept., The verb ‘to quackle’ is used in
Suffolk in reference to suffocation, when caused by ‘drink going the
wrong way’, or by smoke. 1895 RYE Gloss. E. Anglia, s.v. ‘My cough
quackles me’. ‘He fanged her by the throat and nearly quackled her’.
quackle, v.2
[In form a deriv. of QUACK v.2, but found earlier.]
intr. To quack, as a duck. Hence {sm}quackling vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1564-78 W. BULLEIN Dial. agst. Pest. (1888) 64 Vpon a tyme when
quacklyng Duckes did speake and caklyng hennes could talke. 1825 HONE
Every-day Bk. I. 534 The loud..quackling of ducks..is a sign of rain.
1837 CARLYLE Fr. Rev. II. I. i, Simple ducks..quackle for crumbs from
young royal fingers. 1865 MRS. WHITNEY Gayworthys I. 11
Underneath..splashed and quackled the ducks.
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Quackle will quackle maven.
cheers
Jason
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