quail Significado & definición

Significado de quail en español

• 0 a small, brown bird that is shot for sport or food, or the meat of this bird -- codorniz

  • Quails’ eggs are considered to be a delicacy.

• 1 to feel or show fear; to want to be able to move away from something because you fear it -- temblar

  • Charlie quailed at the sound of his mother’s angry voice.

  • She quailed before her boss’s anger.

• 2 to draw back in fear; to shudder -- acobardarse, amedrentarse

  • The little boy quailed at the teacher’s angry voice.

• 3 a game bird whose meat and eggs are used for food -- codorniz

  • (also adjective) quail eggs.