Croaked vs Croaker - What's the difference?
croaked | croaker |
(croak)
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
One who croaks.
A vocal pessimist, grumbler, or doomsayer.
* {{quote-book
, year=1771
, first=Benjamin
, last=Franklin
, editor= John Bigelow
, title=Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
, edition=1st complete English edition from Franklin's English Manuscript.
, publisher = J.B. Loppincott & Co.
, year_published=1868
, section=part one
, page=167
, ol=23279690M
page/167/mode/1up
, passage=There are croakers in every country, always boding its ruin.
}}
* 1915 , Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
A frog.
A fish in the family Sciaenidae, known for the throbbing sounds they make.
(slang) A doctor.
* Around 1900 , O. Henry,
As a verb croaked
is past tense of croak.As a noun croaker is
one who croaks.croaked
English
Verb
(head)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.
croaker
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, pageurl=https://archive.org/stream/autobiographyofb1868fran
- "It is my advice," the speaker continued, "that we go easier upon the small men. On the day that they have all been driven out the power of this society will have been broken." Unwelcome truths are not popular. There were angry cries as the speaker resumed his seat. McGinty rose with gloom upon his brow. "Brother Morris," said he, "you were always a croaker ..."
- "Lungs," said McGuire comprehensively. "I got it. The croaker says I'll come to time for six months longer—maybe a year if I hold my gait.
