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Quails
- noun - draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
- flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised
- Shook
- small gallinaceous game birds
Quaint
- adjective - attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic); "houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots"
- Odd
- strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"
- Twee
- very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance; "the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name"- Bill Beatty; "came forth a quaint and fearful sight"- Sir Walter Scott; "a quaint sense of humor"
Quaked
- verb - shake with fast, tremulous movements; "His nostrils palpitated"
- shake with seismic vibrations; "The earth was quaking"
Quaker
- noun - a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
- one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear
Quakes
- noun - shake with fast, tremulous movements; "His nostrils palpitated"
- shake with seismic vibrations; "The earth was quaking"
- shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity
Qualms
- noun - a mild state of nausea
- reservation
- uneasiness about the fitness of an action
Quango
- noun - a quasi nongovernmental organization; an organization that is financed by the government yet acts independently of the government
Quanta
- noun - (physics) the smallest discrete quantity of some physical property that a system can possess (according to quantum theory)
- a discrete amount of something that is analogous to the quantities in quantum theory
- large or dramatic, as in quantum leap