Hypertext Webster Gateway: "croak"
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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Croak \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. --Shak.
Two ravens now began to croak Their nuptial song.
--Wordsworth.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Croak \Croak\, n.
The coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a
like sound.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
croak
n : a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog) [syn: {croaking}]
v 1: die (colloquial); "The old man finally kicked the bucket"
[syn: {kick the bucket}, {buy the farm}, {conk}, {drop
dead}, {pop off}, {choke}, {snuff it}]
2: utter a hoarse sound, like a raven [syn: {cronk}]
3: complain quietly [syn: {murmur}, {mutter}, {grumble}, {gnarl}]
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