Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Uttering a low, harsh, guttural sound.
- Foreboding evil; grumbling.
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- verb Present participle of
croak .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog)
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Examples
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It made them strong and willful, and it made them blind and disfigured, and it spurred them to sing strange guttural songs in croaking voices that haunted the American night.
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Of course, those who are familiar with our ways of getting things done would understand that a good deal of the croaking is a means of getting our little army increased, or at least preventing its being diminished.
New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Various
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Actually what this book is a catalog of "croaking".
Archive 2006-07-01 jmnlman 2006
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Actually what this book is a catalog of "croaking".
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But if protests were made to McNaghten - and they were, especially by active men like Broadfoot - they were dismissed as "croaking", and it was pointed out sharply that the army was unlikely to be called on to fight anyway.
Flashman Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1969
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What "croaking" meant Jamie did not in the least know, but he suspected that it referred to something not in the least pleasant for himself.
Troop One of the Labrador Dillon Wallace 1901
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With a queer kind of croaking shriek, the memory of which disturbs my sleep even now occasionally, but which I intended to be a yell of rejoicing, I staggered to my feet, stumbled aft to the cockpit, and half leaped, half tumbled into it.
The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise Harry Collingwood 1886
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Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a "croaking" noise.
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Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a "croaking" noise.
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"He used to make light of what he termed my" croaking "and say I need have no fears for him; and I believe he spoke from the sincerity of his good intentions; he thought all others as sincere and open-hearted as himself, and happy had it been for him if he had found them so.
Stories and Sketches Harriet S. Caswell
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