Gurgle vs Croak - What's the difference?
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To flow with a bubbling sound.
* Young
To make such a sound.
A gurgling sound.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
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
Gurgle is a related term of croak.
As verbs the difference between gurgle and croak
is that gurgle is to flow with a bubbling sound while croak is to make a croak.As nouns the difference between gurgle and croak
is that gurgle is a gurgling sound while croak is a faint, harsh sound made in the throat.gurgle
English
Verb
- The bath water gurgled down the drain.
- Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, / And waste their music on the savage race.
- The baby gurgled with delight.
Noun
(en noun)- Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.
Anagrams
* * English onomatopoeias ----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.