croak
/kɹoʊk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.40 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The raven himself is hoarse, / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan."
- "“I am so tired,” he croaked. “It’s ageing this nation in Tom Hanks in Castaway years.”"
- "“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.”"
- "He'd seen my face, so I had to croak him."
- ""It was me. And I'm glad, damned glad, I didn't croak him. With this slick guy after me, it would be me for the chair.""
- "If Wilton croaked the criminal he did a jolly good day's work, and there's an end of it."
Etymology
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *croken, crācettan, *krēk-, *gerh₂-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kɹoʊk/
- British English: /kɹəʊk/