Croaker

Definition: Croaker

Croaker

Noun

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

2. Any of several fishes that make a croaking noise.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "croaker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references)

Literature

Slang in 1811

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Dejection

Hypochondriac, seek sorrow, self-tormentor, heautontimorumenos, malade imaginaire, medecin tant pis; croaker, pessimist; mope, mopus.

Discontent

Malcontent, grumbler, growler, croaker, dissident, dissenter, laudator temporis acti; censurer, complainer, fault-finder, murmerer.

Crosswords: Croaker

I wash born here, an I wash raished here, and dad gum it, I am gonna die here, an no sidewindin bushwackin, hornswaglin, cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter. (Blazing Saddles; writing credit: Andrew Bergman; Mel Brooks)

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Books

• Tequila Mockingbird (Fey Croaker Series, 3) (reference)

• Tequila Mockingbird: A Fey Croaker Novel (reference)

• The croaker (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Fishing for spot (member of the croaker or drum family). Credit: Fisheries.

A few of the Gulf of Mexico Croaker boats. These vessels fish for the croaker, Micropogon undulatus. Credit: Fisheries.

California pier angling - happy lady with a nice croaker catch. Credit: Fisheries.

The gillnet catch being brought in. The species being fished for included, blueback herring, Alosa aestivalis; silver perch, Bairdiella chrysoura; atlantic menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannosaurus; weakfish, Cynoscion regalis; Atlantic croaker, Micropogonus undulatus; white perch, Morone americanus; striped bass or rockfish, Morone saxatilis and; bluefish, Ponatomus saltatrix. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A representative sample of some of the species collected; gizzard shad, menhaden, bluefish, striped bass, Atlantic croaker, and white perch. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A crab pot collection containing a diamondback terrapin and Atlantic croaker. The turtle was revived and released. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Plate 128. The Croaker. Micropogon undulatus (L.), C.&V. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

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Expressions using "croaker": Atlantic croaker ♦ white croaker ♦ yellowfin croaker. Additional references.

Albanian

pesimist (downbeat, dyspeptic, pessimist, pessimistic), grindavec (arguer, cantankerous, captious, caviller, contentious, crab, crank, disputant, fractious, fretful, ill tempered, noisy person, peevish, pettish, quarrelsome, spitfire, wrangler). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حيوان ناق, ‏المتذمر (complainant, grouser, growler), ‏النعاب نوع من السمك. (various references)

Bulgarian 

човек който говори дрезгаво, черногледец, мърморко (crabber, crank, crosspatch, grouser, growler, grumbler, misery), птица която кряка. (various references)

Chinese 

黃魚 (yellow croaker). (various references)

Czech

sýèek (owl, screech owl). (various references)

Danish

en art trommefisk (corb, creaker, grey weakfish, honnibe croaker, red drum, shi drum, spot, spot croaker, squeteague, weakfish, white flower croaker, yellow drum), almindelig trommefisk (corb, shi drum), almindelig ørnefisk (maigre, meagre, shadefish), ørnefisk (jewfish, maigre, meagre, shadefish, shade-fish). (various references)

Dutch

Shi-ombervis (corb, shi drum), Onze-Lievevrouwevis (jewfish, maigre, meagre, shadefish, shade-fish), ombervis (arctic char, corb, creaker, grayling, jewfish, maigre, meagre, mountain trout, salmon trout, shadefish, shade-fish, shi drum), koningsvis (jewfish, maigre, meagre, opah, shadefish, shade-fish), gewone ombervis (corb, creaker, shi drum). (various references)

Finnish

partarumpukala (corb, shi drum), kotkakala (maigre, meagre, shadefish). (various references)

French

Croaker, courbine, toubib, sciène, ronchonneur, ombrine commune (creaker), ombrine côtière (creaker), ombrine (creaker), maigre commun, maigre (crazy), haut-bar, aigle-bar, aigle. (various references)

German

Croaker, Umberfisch (corb, creaker, shi drum), Schattenfisch (corb, creaker, jewfish, maigre, meagre, shadefish, shade-fish, shi drum), Adlerlachs (jewfish, maigre, meagre, shadefish, shade-fish), Adlerfisch (jewfish, maigre, meagre, shadefish, shade-fish). (various references)

Greek 

κρώζων, μυλοκόπι (corb, drums, shi drum), μαγιάτικο (maigre, meagre, shadefish, Southern meagre), δόλεμος (corb, shi drum). (various references)

Hungarian

vészmadár (alarmist, doomsayer, jinx, shearwater, waybird). (various references)

Italian

croacker, ombrina bocca d'oro (jewfish, maigre, meagre, shadefish, shade-fish), ombrina (umbrine), bocca d'oro (jewfish, maigre, meagre, shadefish, shade-fish, Southern meagre). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

しら�'切る (anchor, annoying persistence, be tired, bothersome, heart-to-heart, intestine, sad, serious, solemn, sound of heavy snow-fall, tiresome, to be deadly silent, to be silent, to brazen it out, to feign ignorance, to play innocent, to pretend to be ignorant of, worrisome). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しろぐち . (various references)

Korean 

민어. (various references)

Manx

cliogaragh (croaking, croaky). (various references)

Pig Latin

oakercray

Portuguese

corvina legítima (jewfish, maigre, meagre, shadefish, shade-fish), corvina (jewfish, maigre, meagre, shadefish, shade-fish), castanha (chestnut, hazelnut, nut, salt cellar), calafate-de-riscas (corb, shi drum), calafate de riscas (corb, creaker, shi drum), resmungão (cross-patch, mumbler, nagger, snappish, snappy), pessimista (cross-patch, pessimist, pessimistic), anunciador do mal (cross-patch). (various references)

Romanian

cobe (beak, bill, calamity howler, jinx, pip). (various references)

Russian 

каркающая птица, ворчун (crosspatch, fuddy-duddy, grouse, growler, grumbler, nagger). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kreketuša. (various references)

Spanish

corvinato (corb, creaker, jewfish, maigre, meagre, shadefish, shade-fish, shi drum), corvina (jewfish, maigre, meagre, shadefish, shade-fish), corbina (jewfish, maigre, meagre, shadefish, shade-fish), verrugato de piedra (corb, creaker, shi drum), verrugato común (corb, creaker, shi drum), verrugato (corb, creaker, shi drum), pardilleja (jewfish, maigre, meagre, shadefish, shade-fish), berruguete (corb, creaker, shi drum). (various references)

Swedish

skuggfisk (corb, shi drum), person som knorrar, olyckskorp, havsgös (maigre, meagre, shadefish), gnällmåns (crybaby, whiner). (various references)

Turkish

karamsar kimse (calamity howler, croak, Jeremiah, Moody, pessimist), şom ağızlı kimse (croak), şarlatan (charlatan, dabbler, empiric, fake, faker, humbug, mountebank, phoney, phony, quack, sciolist, wag). (various references)

Vietnamese 

kẻ báo điềm gỡ người hay c� u nh� u. (various references)

Welsh

ceintachwr (grumbler). (various references)

Argyrosoma regium, Argyrosomus regius, Argyrosomus regius (Asso,1801), Pseudosciaena hololepidota, Sciaena aquila, Umbrina cirrhosa, Umbrina cirrosa, Umbrina cirrosa (Linnaeus,1758). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "croaker": croakers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Croaker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: broaker, Coaker, Krakauer, Kroker. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: corker, racker, recork, rerack, rocker.

-2 letters: carer, corer, crake, creak, croak, crore, ocker, ocrea, racer, raker.

-3 letters: acre, aero, arco, cake, care, cark, carr, cero, coke, core, cork, kore, okra, orca, orra, race, rack, rake, rare, rear, reck, roar, rock.

-4 letters: ace, arc, are, ark, car, cor, ear, era, err, kae, kea, koa, kor.

+1 letter: croakers, croakier.

+2 letters: corncrake, retropack.

+3 letters: cankerworm, caseworker, corncrakes, cornerback, retropacks.

+4 letters: cankerworms, caseworkers, cornerbacks, lacquerwork.

+5 letters: backgrounder, checkerboard, hydrocracked, hydrocracker, lacquerworks.