croaking
kroh king
- n a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog)
- v pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- v utter a hoarse sound, like a raven
- v make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath
- You get, to quote biologist Colin Stewart, "embryos rather ignominiously dying (croaking!) around the tadpole stage.
- They're after Rana catesbeiana the North American bullfrog introduced to France in 1968 by a French aviator who liked the idea of the critters croaking in his garden.
- The crack of shots often pierces the darkness, the echoes of gunfire melting into the chorus of croaking frogs.