Sekirov Dictionary

potrack

UK /ˈpɒtɹak/US /ˈpɑtɹæk/

exclamation 1
verb 1
forms 3

exclamation1

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(Southern-US, old-fashioned) 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[…] — 1898

verb1

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(no longer used) To make such a shrill, high-pitched noise.
- "Dem guineas potracked en waked me up, Son," whispered Neptune. "Now I aims to git whut 's been sneakin' off wid my fowls." — 1920

forms

potracked · potracking · potracks

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