Chitter vs Croak - What's the difference?
chitter | croak |
To make a series of high-pitched sounds; to twitter, chirp or chatter.
(obsolete, Scotland) To shiver or chatter with cold.
A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
The cry of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit)
To make a croak.
To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
* Shakespeare
(of a frog) To make its cry.
(of a raven) To make its cry.
(slang) To die.
(slang) To kill someone or something.
To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
* Carlyle
As verbs the difference between chitter and croak
is that chitter is to make a series of high-pitched sounds; to twitter, chirp or chatter while croak is to make a croak.As a noun croak is
a faint, harsh sound made in the throat.chitter
English
Verb
(en verb)- It was a beautifully sunny day and beetles could be heard chittering loudly in the rose garden by the side of the path made out of antique bricks.
- (Burns)
References
*croak
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- The raven himself is hoarse, / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan.
- He'd seen my face, so I had to croak him.
- Marat croaks with reasonableness.
