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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CROAKING, ppr. Uttering a low, harsh sound from the throat, or other similar sound.
CROAKING, n. A low, harsh sound, as of a frog, or the bowels.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog) [syn: croak, croaking]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Croak Croak (kr?k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Croaked. (kr?kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Croaking.] [From the primitive of AS. cracettan to croak as a raven; akin to G. kr?chzen to croak, and to E. creak, crake.] 1. To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound. Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog, And the hoarse nation croaked. --Pope. 2. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually. Marat . . . croaks with reasonableness. --Carlyle.