Quail

Noun

 * 1) Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.

Derived terms

 * common quail

Verb

 * 1) To shrink or waver; to become fearful or doubtful.
 * 2) * 1886, ,
 * Mr. Utterson had already quailed at the name of Hyde; but when the stick was laid before him, he could doubt no longer; broken and battered as it was, he recognized it for one that he had himself presented many years before to Henry Jekyll.
 * 1) * 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, p25
 * His heart quailed before the enormous pyramidal shape.

Verbs for Quail
domesticate—; flush—; —barks; —bills; — cruises; —feigns; —flushes; —flutters; — glides; —haunts; —jerks; —nods; —roves; —rumbles;  —rustles;   —scratches;   — squeals; —struts; —tattoos; —trills; — thumps; —thunders; —yelps.

Thesaurus
Cornish hen, avoid, blanch, blench, blink, boggle, broiler, caille, canard, caneton, capon, chapon, chicken, cower, cringe, crouch, damsel, demur, dindon, dodge, draw back, duck, duckling, evade, fade, faisan, fall back, falter, fight shy of, flinch, fowl, fryer, funk, gal, goose, grouse, guinea hen, hang back, hang off, have qualms, hesitate, hold off, jib, lass, lassie, maid, maiden, make bones about, miss, missy, oie, partridge, pause, pheasant, pigeon, pigeonneau, poulet, pull back, quiff, recoil, reel back, retreat, roaster, scruple, sheer off, shrink, shrink back, shy, shy at, sidestep, skulk, slink, sneak, squab, squinch, start, start aside, start back, stewing chicken, stick at, stickle, strain, swerve, turkey, turn aside, volaille, waver, weasel, weasel out, wild duck, wince

Etymology 1
From quaille:, from  quaille: (Modern French caille:), from Low  *undefined: (compare Dutch (Flemish) kwakkel:), blend of  (more at ) and  (compare Dutch (Limburg) kkwattel:, German Wachtel:, Danish vagtel:), from  (compare Hittite akuwakuwash:, Old Church Slavonic квакати:, Ancient Greek κοάξ:).

Etymology 2
From

Noun

 * Albanian: shkurta
 * Arabic:   (collective),    (singulative)
 * Azeri: bildirçin
 * Basque: galeper
 * Belarusian: перапелка
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: koailh
 * Bulgarian: пъдпъдък (pâdpâdâk)
 * Catalan: guatlla
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 鹌鹑
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: vagtel
 * Dutch: kwartel, kwakkel
 * Esperanto: koturno
 * Estonian: vutt
 * Faroese: vaktil
 * Finnish:
 * French: caille, caille des blés
 * Friulian: cuaie
 * Galician: paspallás
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὄρτυξ (ortyx)
 * Modern: ορτύκι (ortiki)
 * Hebrew: שליו
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua: qualia
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ヨアロッパウズラ (yoaroppauzura)
 * Ladin: caia
 * Latin:


 * Latvian: paipala
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lower Sorbian: paśpula
 * Macedonian: потполошка,
 * Maltese: summiena
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * O'odham: kakaicu (specifically, Callipepla gambelii)
 * Occitan: catla
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: codorna, codorniz
 * Romani: dropya
 * Romanian: prepeliţa
 * Romansch: quacra, quaiglia
 * Russian:
 * Sami: goaktil
 * Sardinian: xrìcchibi, trepotès, cricchibì, guàgliulu, cualla
 * Scottish: gearradh-gort
 * Serbian: препелица (prepelica)
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: tombo
 * Swedish:
 * Taos: hȕolóna
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Upper Sorbian: pocpula
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: kotur,  hikotur,  jikotur,  koturül,  hikoturül,  jikoturül,  kuit
 * Welsh: sofliar
 * West Frisian: kwartel

Verb

 * Russian: пасовать, робеть, трусить, ,