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Chitter vs Croak - What's the difference?

chitter | croak |

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)
  • To make a series of high-pitched sounds; to twitter, chirp or chatter.
    • 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.
  • (obsolete, Scotland) To shiver or chatter with cold.
    • (Burns)
    (Webster 1913)

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    croak

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
  • The cry of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit)

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a croak.
  • To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The raven himself is hoarse, / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan.
  • (of a frog) To make its cry.
  • (of a raven) To make its cry.
  • (slang) To die.
  • (slang) To kill someone or something.
    • He'd seen my face, so I had to croak him.
  • To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
  • * Carlyle
    • Marat croaks with reasonableness.