queek

plural queeks

1. A vocal sound produced by certain birds.

   From reeds moorhens called to each other, the sounds light metallic “queeks.”

   2007, Samuel F. Pickering, Edinburgh Days: Or, Doing what I Want to Do, page 169

present singular third person queeks · participle present queeking · participle past queeked · past queeked

1. To produce this sound.

1. A vocal sound produced by certain birds.

   A soft “Queek, queek!” made her look up and listen.

   1865, Louisa May Alcott, Nelly's Hospital

   1 more example

   No nest was to be seen, no parent birds hovered overhead, and little Robin could only tell its troubles in that mournful “Queek, queek, queek!”

   2002?, James Marten, The Boy of Chancellorville and Other Civil War Stories (page 67)