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Revision as of 02:08, 31 August 2023
See also: Croak
English
Etymology
From Middle English *croken, crouken, (also represented by craken > crake), back-formation from Old English crācettan (“to croak”) (also in derivative crǣcettung (“croaking”)), from Proto-Germanic *krēk- (compare Swedish kråka, German krächzen), potentially from Proto-Indo-European *greh₂-g- (compare Sanskrit गर्जति (garjati, “to growl”); also Latin grāculus (“jackdaw”), Serbo-Croatian grákati from *greh₂-k-), of onomatopoeic origin.
Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊk
Noun
croak (plural croaks)
- A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
- The call of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit)
- The harsh call of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.
Translations
a faint, harsh sound made in the throat
the sound of a frog or toad
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the harsh sound of various birds, particularly the raven or crow — see caw
Verb
croak (third-person singular simple present croaks, present participle croaking, simple past and past participle croaked)
- (intransitive) To make a croak.
- (transitive) To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
- The raven himself is hoarse, / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan.
- (intransitive, of a frog, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its sound.
- (slang) To die.
- (transitive, slang) To kill someone or something.
- He'd seen my face, so I had to croak him.
- 1920 June, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 216, column 2:
- "It was me. And I'm glad, damned glad, I didn't croak him. With this slick guy after me, it would be me for the chair."
- 1925, G. K. Chesterton, The Arrow of Heaven (first published in Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, Jul 1925)
- If Wilton croaked the criminal he did a jolly good day's work, and there's an end of it.
- To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- Marat […] croaks with such reasonableness.
Translations
to make a croak
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of a frog, to make its sound
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slang: to die
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of a raven, to make its sound — see caw
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