A vivid English dialect past-participle, recorded in Somerset and Dorset glossaries, suggesting being thoroughly conquered by exhaustion — as if physically pressed down.
A vivid English dialect past-participle, recorded in Somerset and Dorset glossaries, suggesting being thoroughly conquered by exhaustion — as if physically pressed down. Related to 'quank', possibly onomatopoeic of collapsing. Used in farming communities after harvest or heavy fieldwork.
After hauling hay bales all afternoon in the August heat, the lads were completely quanked by suppertime.
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(UK, dialect, obsolete) Overpowered by fatigue.
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