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Croaker   Listen
noun
Croaker  n.  
1.
One who croaks, murmurs, grumbles, or complains unreasonably; one who habitually forebodes evil.
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
A small American fish (Micropogon undulatus), of the Atlantic coast.
(b)
An American fresh-water fish (Aplodinotus grunniens); called also drum.
(c)
The surf fish of California. Note: When caught these fishes make a croaking sound; whence the name, which is often corrupted into crocus.






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"Croaker" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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

... after blowing away your breath in blarney, my dear, when you'll want it presently to cool your barley broth."—"By a leaf," cries a Porter with a chest of drawers on his knot, and, passing between them, capsizes both at once, then makes the best of his way on a jog-trot, humming to himself, Ally Croaker, or Hey diddle Ho diddle de; and leaving the fallen heroes to console themselves with broken heads, while some officious friends are carefully placing them on their legs, and genteelly easing their pockets of the possibles; after which they toddle ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan

... you, my dears, from the first," he said. "The Major's an old croaker, but he'd go, too, if it were not necessary for him to stay in New York and attend to business. But we mustn't lose any time, if we're going to direct the politics of the Eighth District Election the ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work • Edith Van Dyne

... lest, if they rashly encounter them, they be ignominiously smashed in the shock." But Herode, relying upon the support and countenance of the Baron de Sigognac and the Marquis de Bruyeres, laughed at his fears, and called him faint-heart, a coward, and a croaker. ...
— Captain Fracasse • Theophile Gautier

... self-poisoning. But, on the other hand, democracy is a kind of religion, and we are bound not to admit its failure. Faiths and Utopias are the noblest exercise of human reason, and no one with a spark of reason in him will sit down fatalistically before the croaker's picture. The best of us are filled with the contrary vision of a democracy stumbling through every error till its institutions glow with justice and its customs shine with beauty. Our better men shall show the ...
— English Prose - A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice • Frederick William Roe (edit. and select.)

... kept one ear open, and had hearkened like the rest to what Ann had been saying; then on a sudden he thrust away his glass, shook his big fist in wrath, and cried out, to the door, as it were, through which Uhlwurm had departed, "That croaker, that death-watch, that bird of ill-omen! If he looks up at an apple-tree in blossom and a bird is piping in the branches, all he thinks of is how soon the happy creature will be killed by the cat! 'Gone! gone' indeed; what profits it to ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... to be a croaker, or a death's head at this gay party, but you mark my words, if you carry this fight against Sam to the limit it will mean a heap of trouble for the school. And, more than that, the Sophomore class will be ...
— Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck • Allen Chapman



Words linked to "Croaker" :   kingfish, sciaenid fish, sciaenid, surffish, white croaker, yellowfin croaker, surf fish, Micropogonias undulatus, saltwater fish, queenfish, Atlantic croaker, Genyonemus lineatus, Umbrina roncador, chenfish, Seriphus politus



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