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Croaker

noun

The lean flesh of a saltwater fish caught along Atlantic coast of southern U.S..

Any of several fishes that make a croaking noise.

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"Croaker" Quotes from Famous Books

... catch the pig and put it into the car—we're going to take it to Mr Haffigan's. [He gives Larry a slap on the shoulders that sends him staggering off through the gate, and follows him buoyantly, exclaiming] Come on, you old croaker! I'll show you how to ...

— John Bull's Other Island • George Bernard Shaw

... he said, sharply, "have ye turned croaker in your old age? what see you, to cause such an ...

— The Pilot • J. Fenimore Cooper

... in other matters is, according to Mr. Laing, a great genius, a more than prophet of the new religion, on this point suddenly collapses into "a dreadful croaker," styling his own age "barren, brainless, soulless, faithless." [4] But the reason is, of course, that "he suffered from chronic dyspepsia" and was unable "to eat his three square meals a day." A very consistent explanation for an avowed materialist, but slightly ...

— The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) • George Tyrrell

... him an arch curtsey and leapt round a tree, and cried from the other side, "I know. A squeaking old croaker, with the usual old song, 'Deed yes, friends, this world is a vale of sin and misery.' The men's the misery and ...

— The Manxman - A Novel - 1895 • Hall Caine

... me hate a croaker, and one who pants when eating. Fancy has great weight. Shall we profit by it? Shall we yield to this weight because it is natural? No, but by ...

— Pascal's Pensees • Blaise Pascal

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