• (RP) IPA: /ˈkweɪkˌbʌtək/
• (GA) IPA: /ˈkweɪkˌbʌtək/, [-ˌbəɾək]

quakebuttock (plural quakebuttocks)

1. (formerly obsolete, rare, now, humorous) A coward.

   Synonyms: quakebreech, Thesaurus:coward

   • c. 1613, Thomas Middleton; William Rowley, “Wit at Several Weapons. A Comedy.”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. […], [part 2], London: Printed by J[ohn] Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, and Richard Marriot, published 1679, OCLC 1015511273 ↗, Act I, scene i, page 358 ↗:

     See what theſe times are grown to, before twenty / I ruſh'd into the world, which is indeed / Much like the Art of ſwiming, he that will attain to't / Muſt fall plump, and duck himſelf at firſt, / And that will make him hardy and advent'rous, / And not ſtand putting in one foot, and ſhiver, / And then draw t'other after, like a quake-buttock; [...]