Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet CROAK

Definition av CROAK

1. kraxa; kväka
2. kraxande; kväkande

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• The voice of ravens is also quite distinct, its usual call being a deep croak of a much more sonorous quality than a crow's call.
• Technically, the raganella is a "cog rattle", producing a sound that is enough of a "croak" to have derived the folk name of the instrument from the Italian name of the common tree-frog.
• The lance-tailed manakin has a number of calls, including a Toe-LEE-do, a curry-ho, and a frog-like buzzing croak given by displaying males.
• His characteristic vocal inflections are heard frequently in many of the Pennsylvanians' novelty tunes, singing his parts in a low-range frog-like croak.
• In each of the films, Burnette played Autry's comic sidekick, Frog Millhouse, with his trademark floppy black hat and trick voice (imitating a deep, froglike croak).
• His voice has been manhandled beyond recognition, bringing with its parched croak only a painful memory of burned-out yesterdays.
• Brown can make the "moo" of a cow, the "buzz" of a bee, the "pop" of a cork (on a bottle of grape wine), the "klopp klopp" of a horse's hooves, the "eek eek" like a shoe, the "cock a doodle doo" of a rooster, the "hoo hoo" of an owl, the "dibble dibble dibble dopp" of rain, the "choo choo" of a train, the "whisper" of a butterfly, the "blurp blurp" of a horn, the "slurp slurp" of a cat drinking, the "tick tock" of a clock, the "knock knock" of a hand against a door, the "sizzle sizzle" of an egg in a frying pan, the "grum grum" of a hippo chewing gum, the "pip" of a goldfish kiss, the "boom" of thunder, the "splatt" of lightning, the "chomp" of monkeys eating cake, the "vroom vroom" of a van, the "tweet" of birds up in a tree, the "beep beep" of a car, the "croak" of a frog, the "hiss" of a rattlesnake, the "snoring" of turtles on a log, the "strum strum" of nursery rhymes played on a guitar, the "munch" of an elephant eating from a dish, the "quack quack" of a duck, and the "music" from an ice cream truck.
• A sound-alike cover appeared on the 1970 album Top of the Pops, Volume 10, with one reviewer using terms like "laryngitic croak" and "gargling gargoyles" to describe how he felt about the cover.
• The station became known for its colorful presentation, with jingles resembling a frog's croak (or, as they proclaimed, "ribbit"), as well as the even more colorful names assigned to its on-air staff.
• Their many calls include a catlike rasp, a frog like croak and even a high pitched police whistle type sound.
• The male advertisement call has been characterized as "a coarse, rasping croak", "a continual harsh creaking snore", or "cricket-like".
• Crack cocaine may be combined with amphetamine ("croak"); tobacco ("coolie"); marijuana ("buddha"; "caviar"; "chronic"; "cocoa puffs"; "fry daddy"; "gimmie"; "gremmie"; "juice"; "primo"; "torpedo"; "turbo"; "woolie"; "woola"); heroin ("moon rock"); and phencyclidine ("clicker"; "p-funk"; "spacebase").
• On December 16, 2010, prime minister Putin, when answering the question during a televised call-in show about whether he ever signed assassination orders, said that hit squads had long been abolished in Russia; speaking specifically of the turncoat allegedly responsible for exposing the ten sleeper agents, he denounced him as a "brute" and a "pig" saying that "the traitors will croak all by themselves", adding that a traitor's life is miserable and regrettable.
• If lost to sight, however, for the briefest period communication is kept up betwixt the pair by a low hoarse double croak.
• Her vocals were noted by Samantha O'Connor of The 405 as ranging from "thunderous roars and rib-cracking falsettos over large dramatic piano swells to fuzzy, warm lower-register rumblings", and were characterised as having a raw delivery, with minimal engineering, leaving "her vocal idiosyncrasies to crackle, croak and coo, bringing more depth" to the album.

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