Synonyms for croaker


Grammar : Noun
Spell : kroh-ker
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkroʊ kər


Définition of croaker

Origin :
  • "prophet of evil," 1630s, agent noun from croak (v.); a reference to the raven (cf. Middle English crake "a raven," early 14c., from Old Norse kraka "crow," of imitative origin).
  • As in frog : noun jumping amphibian
Example sentences :
  • There are only fools like this croaker here who see any harm in it.
  • Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola
  • The croaker was described by Linnus, in 1766, from South Carolina.
  • Extract from : « Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others » by James Alexander Henshall
  • Many a croaker turns out in the long run to be brave in the fight.
  • Extract from : « For Faith and Freedom » by Walter Besant
  • And then, for the first time since the disaster, the note of the croaker was heard.
  • Extract from : « West Wind Drift » by George Barr McCutcheon
  • "You were ever a croaker, good Merlin," replied Sir Launcelot.
  • Extract from : « In the Court of King Arthur » by Samuel Lowe
  • These are facts such as the united Croaker tribe can p. 210neither refute nor deny.
  • Extract from : « About London » by J. Ewing Ritchie
  • The Croaker” advises him to “buy an eye-glass and become a dandy and a gentleman.
  • Extract from : « In the Track of the Bookworm » by Irving Browne
  • Although a severe thinker you are not constitutionally a croaker.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Lyman Trumbull » by Horace White
  • What the world gets sick of is the croaker, who never ceases talking about his ailments.
  • Extract from : « Nervous Breakdowns and How to Avoid Them » by Charles David Musgrove
  • The doctor was a croaker, as was the fashion of the time, with all who pretended to peculiar political sagacity.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 » by Various

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