quaq

English

Noun

quaq (uncountable)

1. (Iñupiat culture) Frozen meat or eggs, eaten partially thawed.
   • 2007, Richard Hosking, Eggs in Cookery: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium of Food and Cookery 2006‎^[1]:

     Freezing also produces quaq, the Arctic's favorite protein dish made by freezing raw protein and eating it when partially defrosted.

   • 2008, Seth Kantner, Shopping for Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska‎^[2]:

     We ate that quaq — frozen fish — all winter, raw and dipped in seal oil.

   • 2015, Alicia Z. Klepeis, The World's Strangest Foods‎^[3]:

     Some people in Arctic regions eat frozen meat called quaq. Common varieties of quaq include caribou, seal, fish, and musk ox.