quacking

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Verb[edit]

quacking

  1. present participle and gerund of quack
    • 1839, Edward Charlesworth, Magazine of Natural History:
      The usual note emitted by this genus is a kind of tremulous querulous bark, not very unlike the quacking voice of a duck. Although all our larger squirrels []

Adjective[edit]

quacking (comparative more quacking, superlative most quacking)

  1. Making quacking sounds, or prone to doing so.

Noun[edit]

quacking (plural quackings)

  1. The sound made by a group of ducks; quacks.

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