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/ˈpɒtɹak/ · interjection
(dated, especially Southern US) The shrill, high-pitched noise of a guinea fowl..
Here and there cattle were grazing, guinea fowls were calling potrack in tones which not even the magic of distance could render musical[…]
My grandmother got me some guinea eggs once, to put under one of those hens. Their "potrack, potrack, potrack" had all the neighbors up in arms after a while
[…]a few guinea hens pecking for seeds or worms and calling out their idiot incessant potrack, potrack, potrack.
"Dem guineas potracked en waked me up, Son," whispered Neptune. "Now I aims to git whut 's been sneakin' off wid my fowls."
Cocks crowed, guineas potracked, calves and goats bleated. A strain of music sang out above the confusion of sounds[…]
Come de daybreak you hear de guinea fowls start potracking down at de edge of de woods lot, and den de roosters all start up 'round de barn and de ducks finally wake up and jine in.
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Potrack means (dated, especially Southern US) The shrill, high-pitched noise of a guinea fowl..
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Here and there cattle were grazing, guinea fowls were calling potrack in tones which not even the magic of distance could render musical[…]
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