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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Croak \Croak\ (kr?k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Croaked}. (kr?kt); p.
pr & vb n. {Croaking}.] [From the primitive of AS
cracettan to croak as a raven; akin to G. kr?chzen to croak,
and to E. creak, crake.]
1. To make a low hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a
raven, or a crow; hence to make any hoarse, dismal sound.
Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog, And the
hoarse nation croaked. --Pope.
2. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to
utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
Marat . . . croaks with reasonableness. --Carlyle.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
croaking
adj : like the sounds of frogs and crows; "a guttural voice";
"acres of guttural frogs" [syn: {croaky}, {guttural}]
n : a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog) [syn: {croak}]
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