Crout. World English Historical Dictionary

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v. Sc. Also croot. [app. onomatopœic: the initial part being as in crow, croak, creak, and kindred verbs, and the latter part imitative or suggestive of abrupt or grunting sound: cf. also croud, CROOD v.] intr. To make abrupt croaking or murmuring noises; to coo as a dove. Rarely trans.

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1549.  Compl. Scot., vi. 60. The dou croutit hyr sad sang.

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1613.  Bp. Forbes, Comm. Rev. (1614), 158 (Jam.). Men led with the spirit of Satan … sent abroad, as crouting frogges.

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a. 1693.  Urquhart, Rabelais, III. xiii. 107. The … crouting of Cormorants.

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1806.  R. Jamieson, Pop. Ball., I. 298 (Jam.). And O, as he rattled and roar’d, And graen’d, and mutter’d, and crouted.

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1808.  Jamieson, s.v., The belly is said to croot, when there is a noise in the intestines.

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