Potrack
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈpɒtɹak/ · Part of speech interjection
Quick meaning: Potrack is an interjection meaning (dated, especially Southern US) The shrill, high-pitched noise of a guinea fowl.
Meaning
(dated, especially Southern US) The shrill, high-pitched noise of a guinea fowl.
More Meanings
- (archaic, chiefly African-American Vernacular) To make such a shrill, high-pitched noise.
Example Sentences
[…]a few guinea hens pecking for seeds or worms and calling out their idiot incessant potrack, potrack, potrack.
Cocks crowed, guineas potracked, calves and goats bleated. A strain of music sang out above the confusion of sounds[…]
"Dem guineas potracked en waked me up, Son," whispered Neptune. "Now I aims to git whut 's been sneakin' off wid my fowls."
Here and there cattle were grazing, guinea fowls were calling potrack in tones which not even the magic of distance could render musical[…]
Word Forms
- potracks
- potracking
- potracked
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pipe, ping, tock, crack, latrate, treble.
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