quoke

English

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -əʊk

Verb

quoke

  1. (archaic) simple past and past participle of quake
    • 1822, Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine: Volume 11, page 591:
      In corroboration of such terrific doings of nature, and to shew that the solid earth must have quoke from its foundation, up comes the cook from the kitchen, solemnly swearing by her sole and flounder, that the very spit shook, and every pan clattered.
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