quail (2)EnglishOxford Dictionary of Englishquail2 /kweɪl / ▸ verb [no object] feel or show fear or apprehension: she quailed at his heartless words. – ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘waste away, come to nothing’): of unknown origin.
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