Croaking

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Croak \Croak\ (kr[=o]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Croaked}.
     (kr[=o]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Croaking}.] [From the primitive
     of AS. cracettan to croak as a raven; akin to G. kr[aum]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.


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              Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog,
              And the hoarse nation croaked.        --Pope.
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     2. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to
        utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
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              Marat . . . croaks with reasonableness. --Carlyle.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]