quandy

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quandy (plural quandies)

  1. (obsolete) The long-tailed duck.
    • 1916, Edmund Brownell Weston, In memoriam, my father and my mother:
      Many were the coots, quandies, sheldrakes and loons that my father and the captain brought home from the Gurnet gunning trips.