croak
noun
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L22671 on Wikidata ↗verb
- die
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /kɹoʊk/ / /kɹəʊk/
name
Etymology: Variant of Croke.
- A surname from Irish.
noun
Etymology: From Middle English *croken, crouken, (also represented by craken > crake), back-formation from Old English crācettan (“to croak”) (also in derivative crǣcetung (“croaking”)), from Proto-Germanic *krēk-, from Proto-Indo-European *greh₂-g-, from *greh₂-k-, of onomatopoeic origin. See also Swedish kråka, German krächzen, Sanskrit गर्जति (garjati, “to growl”); also compare Latin grāculus (“jackdaw”), Serbo-Croatian grákati. More at crack, crake and craic.
- A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
- The call of a frog or toad.
- The harsh call of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English *croken, crouken, (also represented by craken > crake), back-formation from Old English crācettan (“to croak”) (also in derivative crǣcetung (“croaking”)), from Proto-Germanic *krēk-, from Proto-Indo-European *greh₂-g-, from *greh₂-k-, of onomatopoeic origin. See also Swedish kråka, German krächzen, Sanskrit गर्जति (garjati, “to growl”); also compare Latin grāculus (“jackdaw”), Serbo-Croatian grákati. More at crack, crake and craic.
- To make a croak sound.
- To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
“The raven himself is hoarse, / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan.”
““I am so tired,” he croaked. “It’s ageing this nation in Tom Hanks in Castaway years.””
- To make its vocal sound.
- To die.
““I would like to understand before I croak. I would like to understand, and then I’m perfectly fine to shuffle off my mortal coil.””
- To kill.
“He'd seen my face, so I had to croak him.”
“"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."”
- To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
“Marat […] croaks with such reasonableness.”
- To abort the current program indicating a user or caller error.
“The accessor croaks if it's not an appropriate object reference.”