different between ribbit vs croak

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???b?t/, /???b?t/
• Rhymes: -?b?t

Interjection

ribbit

1. (onomatopoeia) The vocal sound made by a frog or toad.

   The students fell momentarily silent while he finished writing on the board. Then, "Ribbit!"

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Noun

ribbit (plural ribbits)

1. The vocal sound made by a frog or toad.

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Verb

ribbit (third-person singular simple present ribbits, present participle ribbiting or ribbitting, simple past and past participle ribbited or ribbitted)

1. (intransitive) To make the sound of a frog or toad.

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References

• Songs of the Frog

English

Etymology

From Middle English *croken, crouken, (also represented by craken > crake), back-formation from Old English cr?cettan (“to croak”) (also in derivative cr?cettung (“croaking”)), from Proto-Germanic *kr?k- (compare Swedish kråka, German krächzen), from Proto-Indo-European *greh?-k- (compare Latin gr?culus (“jackdaw”), Serbo-Croatian grákati).

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: kr?k, IPA^(key): /k?o?k/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kr?k, IPA^(key): /k???k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

croak (plural croaks)

1. A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
2. The cry of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit)
3. The harsh cry of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.

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Verb

croak (third-person singular simple present croaks, present participle croaking, simple past and past participle croaked)

1. (intransitive) To make a croak.
2. (transitive) To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
3. (intransitive, of a frog, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its cry.
4. (slang) To die.
5. (transitive, slang) To kill someone or something.

   He'd seen my face, so I had to croak him.

   • 1925, G. K. Chesterton, The Arrow of Heaven (first published in Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, Jul 1925)

     If Wilton croaked the criminal he did a jolly good day's work, and there's an end of it.

6. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.

   • Marat […] croaks with such reasonableness.

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