crake
crake · crakes · craked · craking
To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crakeTo cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.
/ˈkɹeɪk/
Meaning
2 sensesTo cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.
(obsolete)To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
Origin
From Middle English crak, crake, from Old Norse kráka (“crow”), from Proto-Germanic *krak-From Middle English crak, crake, from Old Norse kráka (“crow”), from Proto-Germanic *krak-, *kra- (“to croak, caw”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂-, itself onomatopoeic.
From Middle English craken, from Old English cracian, from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn.
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Forms
crakes, craking, craked, crakedWord family
1 related wordsDerivedcraker
Lessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.