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From the dusky woods darted out those birds that bide a New England winter; dove-colored muthatches quank quanked among the hemlocks;
Margaret 1851
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(adjective) - (1) Overpowered by fatigue. From Anglo-Saxon cwanian, to be weary or faint, and cwencan, to quench.
--John Akerman's Provincial Words and Phrases in Wiltshire, 1842
(2) Quank, to overcome, subdue; hence quanker, a settler.
--Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1896-1905
January 16, 2018