From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Croak \Croak\ (kr[=o]k), verb (used without an object) [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.
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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: like the sounds of frogs and crows; "a guttural voice"; "acres of guttural frogs" [syn: {croaky}, {guttural}]
noun
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