quail

quail

1. viiriäinen

Synonyymisanakirja

quail

aitokana, virginianpyy, peltopyy, viiriäinen, kaliforniantupsuviiriäinen, Lofortyx californicus, lauma, parvi.

Rimmaavat sanat

quail rimmaa näiden kanssa:

cocktail, alkucocktail...

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Englannin sanakirja

quail (englanti > suomi)

1. tutista

2. viiriäinen Old World, amerikanviiriäinen New World

quail englanniksi

1. puhekieltä To waste away; to fade, wither. (defdate)

2. puhekieltä To frighten, daunt (someone). (defdate)

3. 1978, (w), w:Livia (novel)|Livia: or, Buried Alive: A Novel, London; Boston, Mass.: (w), Special:BookSources/9780571112975 978-0-571-11297-5; republished in (w), London: Faber, published 1992, Special:BookSources/9780571163281 978-0-571-16328-1, page 358:

To tell the truth the prospect rather quailed him – wandering about in the gloomy corridors of a nunnery.

4. puhekieltä To lose heart or courage; to be daunted, fearful. (defdate)

5. (quote-book)

6. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=w:Longmans Longmans, Green, and Co.|year=1886|oclc=86121123|passage=Mr. Utterson had already quailed at the name of Hyde; but when the stick was laid before him, he could doubt no longer; broken and battered as it was, he recognized it for one that he had himself presented many years before to Henry Jekyll.

7. (quote-book)|year=1949|oclc=7158857|page=25|passage=His heart quailed before the enormous pyramidal shape.

8. (quote-journal)|date=20 February 2016|passage=His colleagues quailed when, in 1986, he first sat on the court as a brash 50-year-old whose experience had been mostly as a combative government lawyer: a justice who, in that sanctum of columns and deep judicial silence, was suddenly firing questions like grapeshot.

9. puhekieltä Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, give way. (defdate)

10. Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.

11. puhekieltä The meat from this bird eaten as food.

12. puhekieltä A prostitute, so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.

13. To curdle or coagulate, as milk does.

14. (quote-book), trans.|title=w:Natural History (Pliny)|The Historie of the World: Commonly Called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus; translated into English by Philemon Holland|location=London|publisher=Printed by Adam Islip|year=1601|oclc=931247183|passage=&91;laserNoun 2|Laser is given&93; to such as haue supped off and drunk quailed milke, that is cluttered within their stomack.

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