Obs. exc. dial. [Imitative: cf. QUACK sb.3] trans. and intr. To choke.
1622. S. Ward, Woe to Drunkards (1627), 22. The drinke or something in the cup quackled him, stucke so in his throat, that … [it] strangled him presently.
1655. Gurnall, Chr. in Arm., I. (1665), 72. God knowes, thou art almost quackled with thy teares.
1806. Bloomfield, Wild Flowers, Poems (1845), 221. Some quack’ling cried, ‘let go your hold’; The farmers held the faster.
1865. J. Freeland, in Standard, 19 Sept., 6/4. The verb ‘to quackle’ is used in Suffolk in reference to suffocation, when caused by ‘drink going the wrong way,’ or by smoke.
1895. Rye, Gloss. E. Anglia, s.v. ‘My cough quackles me.’ ‘He fanged her by the throat and nearly quackled her.’
