Croaker vs False - What's the difference?
croaker | false |
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,
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun croaker
is one who croaks.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.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.
Derived terms
*spot croaker *spotfin croaker *white croaker *yellowfin croakerfalse
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}