Croaking vbl. sb. World English Historical Dictionary

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[f. CROAK v.]

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  1.  The action of making a deep hoarse sound.

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1547.  Boorde, Brev. Health, cccix. 100 b. In Englyshe it is named crokyng or clockyng in ones bely.

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a. 1610.  Healey, Epictetus’ Man., xxiv. (1636), 29. The croaking of the Raven.

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1840.  R. H. Dana, Bef. Mast, ix. 22. The frogs set up their croaking in the marshes.

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  2.  fig. Talking dismally or foreboding evil.

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1810.  Wellington, in Gurw., Desp., VI. 417. The croaking which already prevails in the army.

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1836.  Marryat, Midsh. Easy, xxvii. 106. All this comes from your croaking—you’re a Mother Cary’s chicken.

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