quail

• vi.竦む、臆病になる；恐れを感じる
• n. うずら
• n.（うずら）人の名前；（英）Quail

この鳥の鳴き声を模したオノマトペ。

quail

quail: Quail the bird [14] and quail ‘cower’ [15] are not related. The former comes via Old French quaille from medieval Latin coacula, which probably originated in imitation of the bird’s grating cry. It is not known for certain where the verb (which originally meant ‘decline, wither, give way’) came from, although some have linked it with another verb quail, now obsolete, which meant ‘curdle’. This came via Old French quailler from Latin coāgulāre, source of English coagulate.
=> coagulate

quail (n.)

migratory game bird, late 14c. (early 14c. as a surname (Quayle), from Old French quaille (Modern French caille), perhaps via Medieval Latin quaccula (source also of Proven?al calha, Italian quaglia, Old Spanish coalla), or directly from a Germanic source (compare Dutch kwakkel, Old High German quahtala "quail," German Wachtel, Old English wihtel), imitative of the bird's cry. Or the English word might be directly from Proto-Germanic. Slang meaning "young attractive woman" first recorded 1859.

quail (v.)

c. 1400, "have a morbid craving;" early 15c., "grow feeble or sick;" mid-15c., "to fade, fail, give way," of unknown origin, perhaps from Middle Dutch quelen "to suffer, be ill," from Proto-Germanic *kwaljan, from PIE *gwele- (1) "to throw, to pierce" (see quell). Or from obsolete quail "to curdle" (late 14c.), from Old French coailler, from Latin coagulare (see coagulate). Sense of "lose heart, shrink, cower" is attested from 1550s. According to OED, common 1520-1650, then rare until 19c., when apparently it was revived by Scott. Related: Quailed; quailing.

1. They dined off salmon， quail ，and fruit.

彼らが食事をしているのは鮭、うずらの肉、果物です。

2.I 've shot hundres of quail with that gun.

私はその銃で数百匹のウズラを撃ったことがある。

3.The very words make many of us quail .

これらの言葉に私たちの多くの人は臆病になった。

4.What they did to a sensitive stomach made seasoned sailors quail .

このような局面は航海に慣れた水兵に食欲を感じさせた。

5.The quail were walking around like pulets，seeming all dainty and unseen.

ヒヨコのようなウズラが周りを歩いていて、傍若無人な顔をしていて、とても美しい。