The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
CROAK
croak, croaking
(noun) a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog)
die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it
(verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; “She died from cancer”; “The children perished in the fire”; “The patient went peacefully”; “The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102”
murmur, mutter, grumble, croak, gnarl
(verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one’s breath; “she grumbles when she feels overworked”
croak, cronk
(verb) utter a hoarse sound, like a raven
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
croak (plural croaks)
A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
The cry of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit)
The harsh cry of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.
Verb
croak (third-person singular simple present croaks, present participle croaking, simple past and past participle croaked)
(intransitive) To make a croak.
(transitive) To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
(intransitive, of a frog, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its cry.
(slang) To die.
(transitive, slang) To kill someone or something.
To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
Source: Wiktionary
Croak (krk), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Croaked. (krp. pr. & vb. n. Croaking.] Etym: [From the primitive of AS. cracettan to croak as a raven; akin to G. kr 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.
Croak, v. t.
Definition: To utter in a low, hoarse voice; to announce by croaking; to forebode; as, to croak disaster. The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan. Shak. Two ravens now began to croak Their nuptial song. Wordsworth.
Croak, n.
Definition: The coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a like sound.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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