meaning of quaker
1. One who quakes.
2. One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend, n. , 4.
3. The nankeen bird.
4. The sooty albatross.
5. Any grasshopper or locust of the genus (Edipoda; -- so called from the quaking noise made during flight.
6. a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox the Friends have never called themselves Quakers
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