| q | small gallinaceous game birds |
|---|---|
| q | (game bird) flesh of quail |
| q | draw back, as with fear or pain |
| q | anticipate with dread or anxiety |
| q | spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico |
| q | spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico |
| q | strange in an interesting or pleasing way |
| q | very strange or unusual |
| q | attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic) |
| q | in a quaint old-fashioned manner |
| q | in a strange but not unpleasant manner |
| q | strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned |