Q

     Q? What the heck am I supposed to write about with "q"? Queens, quails, quality, quotes, quills. I don't have anything original, so I looked up all the words that start with "q" in the dictionary. Thus, my post is about weird words in the dictionary that start with "q".
     All definitions come from the Merriam Webster Dictionary app on my iPod. 


Qiviut- the wool of the undercoat of the musk ox. 

Now this isn't a weird word, but I think the definition is slightly amusing: Quack- to make the characteristic cry of a duck.
Also, apparently a quack is a "pretender of medical skill."

Quadrennium- a period of four years.

Here's a fun one: Quadricentennial- a 400th anniversary or its celebration.

Quadrumanous- having feet adapted for grasping. 

Quadriga- a chariot drawn by four horses abreast. 

Quadroon- a person of one-quarter black ancestry. (Why is there a word for this?)

Quaggy- marshy or flabby. (???)

Quango- an organization that deals with public matters and is supported by the government but that works independently and has its own legal powers. 

And who could resist this quokka??

Look at the cuteness!!!



-Dakota