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Croaking   /krˈoʊkɪŋ/   Listen
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Croak  v. t.  To utter in a low, hoarse voice; to announce by croaking; to forebode; as, to croak disaster. "The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan." "Two ravens now began to croak Their nuptial song."


Croak  v. i.  (past & past part. croaked; pres. part. croaking)  
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."
2.
To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually. "Marat... croaks with reasonableness."





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"Croaking" Quotes from Famous Books



... dreadful, its waste and desolation were appalling. And yet it lived with a life of its own. Wild fowl flew in wedges from the sea to feed in its recesses, alligators and hippopotami splashed in the waters, bitterns boomed among the rushes, and from every pool and quagmire came the croaking of a ...
— The People Of The Mist • H. Rider Haggard
... piping of hylas came from a marshy strip of woodland that ran through the centre of the town and a toad was croaking at the foot of ...
— The Trail of the Lonesome Pine • John Fox, Jr.
... darkness the hooded figures stood a moment listening, and then a croaking, breaking, husky, merry voice began ...
— The Scapegoat • Hall Caine
... Benderloch, and through Appin and even up to Glencoe, by some strange spasm of physique—for she was frail and famished—the barefooted old cailleach of Carnus came after us, a bird of battle, croaking in a horrible merriment over our operations. The Dark Dame we called her. She would dance round the butchery of the fold, chanting her venomous Gaelic exultation in uncouth rhymes that she strung together as easily as most old ...
— John Splendid - The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn • Neil Munro
... lived in a slimy bog, And caught a cold in an awful fog. The cold got worse, The frog got hoarse, Till croaking he scared a polliwog!" ...
— Mother Goose in Prose • L. Frank Baum


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