croak

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /kɹəʊk/    美 /kɹoʊk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
  2. The call of a frog or toad.
  3. The harsh call of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.
动词 v.
  1. To make a croak sound. intransitive
  2. To utter in a low, hoarse voice. transitive
    — The raven himself is hoarse, / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan.
  3. To make its vocal sound. intransitive
  4. To die. intransitive,slang
    — “I would like to understand before I croak. I would like to understand, and then I’m perfectly fine to shuffle off my mortal coil.”
  5. To kill. slang,transitive
    — He'd seen my face, so I had to croak him.
  6. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
    — Marat […] croaks with such reasonableness.
  7. To abort the current program indicating a user or caller error. slang
    — The accessor croaks if it's not an appropriate object reference.

词形变化

croaks plural croaks present,singular,third-person croaking participle,present croaked participle,past croaked past

词汇关系

衍生词
croakless croaky croaker croaking gourami croakingly

词源

词源 1
From Middle English *croken, crouken, (also represented by craken > crake), back-formation from Old English crācettan (“to croak”) (also in derivative crǣcetung (“croaking”)), from Proto-Germanic *krēk-, from Proto-Indo-European *greh₂-g-, from *greh₂-k-, of onomatopoeic origin.
See also Swedish kråka, German krächzen, Sanskrit गर्जति (garjati, “to growl”); also compare Latin grāculus (“jackdaw”), Serbo-Croatian grákati. More at crack, crake and craic.
词源 2
From Middle English *croken, crouken, (also represented by craken > crake), back-formation from Old English crācettan (“to croak”) (also in derivative crǣcetung (“croaking”)), from Proto-Germanic *krēk-, from Proto-Indo-European *greh₂-g-, from *greh₂-k-, of onomatopoeic origin.
See also Swedish kråka, German krächzen, Sanskrit गर्जति (garjati, “to growl”); also compare Latin grāculus (“jackdaw”), Serbo-Croatian grákati. More at crack, crake and craic.
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