quook
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]quook
- (obsolete) simple past and past participle of quake
- 1591, Edmund Spenser, Mother Hubberd's Tale:
- Freely up those royal spoils he took, Yet at the lion's skin he inly quook.
Middle English
[edit]Verb
[edit]quook
- past of quaken
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- That lyk an aspen leef he quook for ire.
- Like an aspen leaf he shook with rage.