croakn.
/krəʊk/ 1. The deep hoarse sound made by a frog or raven. Also transferred and figurative.
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the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > frog > croak or croaking
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > family Corvidae (crow) > [noun] > genus Corvus > corvus corax (raven) > sound made by
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croak1573
pork1640
porking1655
1573 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalipse (rev. ed.) lxxi. f. 225v They play the waterfrogs, singyng croake croake.
a1626 W. Rowley New Wonder (1632) iii. 47 O thou fatall Raven; Let me pull thine eyes out for this Sad croake.
1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. ii. 408 The hoarse, deep, periodical croak of the cormorants.
1861 A. Trollope Barchester Towers xliv ‘I told you so, I told you so!’ is the croak of a true Job's comforter.
2. Hawking. (See quot. 1891.) Also plural. (Cf. crock n.4)
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of birds > [noun] > disorders of hawks
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apoplexy1614
crock1614
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privy evil1614
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1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch (1710) 400 The Croke is evidently an Asthmatic Disposition produced by hard flying.
1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch (1710) 401 The Noise called the Croke was made by Expiration and not by Inspiration.
1891 J. E. Harting Gloss. Falconry Croaks, or Kecks, Fr. crac, a disease of the air-passages, analogous to a cough, and so called from the sound the bird makes during any exertion, such as bating, or flying.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
croakv.
/krəʊk/ 1.
a. intransitive. To utter a deep, hoarse, dismal cry, as a frog or a raven.
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the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > make sound [verb (intransitive)] > croak
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crook14..
croaka1500
croape1508
croup1513
crawk1889
quirk1894
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xiii. 129 Sely Copyle, oure hen..She kakyls; Bot begyn she to crok, To groyne or to clok.
1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. Aa.iiii Thou dunghyll crowe that crokest agaynst the rayne.
1595 E. Spenser Epithalamion in Amoretti & Epithalamion xix. sig. H5 Th' unpleasant Quyre of Frogs still croking.
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iii. iii. sig. F2v Now croakes the toad.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 2 The hoarse Raven..With frequent Crokes presag'd the coming Blow.
1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies 277 Ravens..flapping about and croaking dismally in the air.
1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile xxii. 699 Meanwhile the frogs croaked furiously.
b. Of a hawk: see croak n. 2.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of birds > of birds: have disorder [verb (intransitive)] > disorders of hawks
croak1575
crock1614
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 250 You may perceyue these woormes to plague and trouble your hawke,..when she croakes in the night.
1618 S. Latham New & 2nd Bk. Falconrie viii. 23 It breedeth much winde in them, the which..wil appeare often with a rising in the gorge, and a noise withall of croking.
2. transferred. Of persons: †To groan or cry (obsolete); to speak with a hoarse, hollow utterance; figurative to speak in dismal accents, talk despondingly, forebode evil (like the raven).
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > moaning or groaning > moan or groan [verb (intransitive)]
groan7..
yomer971
woneOE
quaina1400
croaka1500
granka1500
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > hoarsely
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croak1609
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [verb (intransitive)] > utter in hoarse voice
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roopa1572
croak1609
harrumph1936
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > utter predictions [verb (intransitive)] > predict evil
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a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xiii. 142 I thoght Gyll began to crok And trauell full sad.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. ii. 193 Would I could meete that roague Diomed I would croke like a Rauen, I would bode, I would bode. View more context for this quotation
1797 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iii, in Wks. (1815) VIII. 389 They, who croak themselves hoarse about the decay of our trade.
1806 T. C. Metcalfe in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches (1877) 807 Without croaking, it may be observed that our government is upon a dangerous experiment.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxii. 66 ‘Don't be croaking, cousin—I hate it!’ he would say.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > have digestive disorder [verb (intransitive)] > rumble
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crob1566
1547 [implied in: A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. Cxvii In englysh it is named crokynge or clockyng in ones bely. (at croaking n. 1)].
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Gribouiller, to rumble or croake (as the guts doe through windinesse).
1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin iv. 330 My eager stomach crokes, and calls for Dinner!
a1704 T. Brown Satyr upon French King in Wks. (1707) I. i. 92 When my starv'd Entrails croke.
4. transitive. To utter or proclaim by croaking.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > throatily or harshly
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croak1791
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to grind out1889
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. v. 38 The Rauen himselfe is hoarse, That croakes the fatall entrance of Duncan. View more context for this quotation
1791 Ep. to J. Priestley in Poet. Reg. (1808) 401 Now half the bench of Bishops we may meet, Croaking ‘old clothes’ about St. James's Street.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iv. 71 Marsh-divers, rather, maid, Shall croak thee sister.
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xiii. 178 Bibulus, as each measure was passed, croaked that it was null and void.
5. intransitive.
a. slang. To die.
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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
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sweltc888
adeadeOE
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wendeOE
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starveOE
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forfereOE
forthfareOE
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to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
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endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
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to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
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spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 165 Croak, to die.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 424/1 They go mouching along as if they were croaking.
1873 Slang Dict. Croak, to die—from the gurgling sound a person makes when the breath of life is departing.
1896 A. Morrison Child of Jago xxviii. 272 Run, for Gawd's sake, or the woman'll croak!
1961 ‘J. Welcome’ Beware of Midnight ii. 33 Your old man has croaked and left you the lot.
b. transitive. To kill; to murder; to hang. dialect or slang.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > hang [verb (transitive)]
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anhangOE
forhangc1300
to loll up1377
gallowa1400
twitchc1450
titc1480
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beswinga1566
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to turn over1570
to turn off1581
to turn (a person) on the toe1594
to stretch1595
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to hang up1771
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to work off1841
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the world > life > death > killing > man-killing or homicide > murder or assassination > murder or assassinate [verb (transitive)]
amurderOE
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homicidec1470
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remove1609
assassin1620
to do the business for a person1759
Septembrize1794
croak1823
square1888
shift1898
to take out1900
to bump off1907
bump1914
to do in1914
to put out1917
to knock off1919
terminate1920
to give (a person) the works1929
scrag1930
snuff1932
wash1941
waste1964
wipe1968
to terminate with extreme prejudice1969
neutralize1970
snuff1973
stiff1974
1823 P. Egan Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (rev. ed.) Croaked, hanged. A flash term among keepers of prisons, who, speaking of a thief that was executed, observe, ‘He was croaked.’
1848 Ladies' Repository VIII. 316/1 Croak, to murder.
1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Crooak,..N. and E., to kill.
1910 E. A. Walcott Open Door vii. 83 ‘I never done it!’ he gasped. ‘I never hurt nobody. Who's been croaked?’
1923 L. J. Vance Baroque xxvii. 173 If that ever got out, sister'd be croaked, and Angelo would get his simultaneous.
1930 Punch 26 Feb. 236 It was fairly clear that he had been croaked.
1945 L. A. G. Strong Othello's Occupation 123 Who croaked Enameline?
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n.1573v.a1500- to lay eyes on
- to lay fallow, idle
- to lay fast
- to lay fast by the feet
- to lay for
- to lay forth
- to lay from, off
- to lay full low
- to lay hand
- to lay hand on or in
- to lay hand on or to
- to lay hand on or upon
- to lay hands on or in
- to lay hands on or to
- to lay hands on or upon
- to lay high fives
- to lay himself down to his work
- to lay hold on, of
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- to lay home, hard, hardly to
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