crake

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.
  2. A crack; a boast. obsolete
动词 v.
  1. To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.
    — How still ! how very still it is, So silent it appears, E'en from its intensity, To tingle in mine ears. I hear the sheep-bell far away In the calm breathless night; The corncrake begins to crake . Crake, crake, with all its might.
  2. To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully. obsolete
    — I hyred the to fyght agaynste Alexander, and not to crake and prate.

词形变化

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词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
From Middle English craken, from Old English cracian, from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian kroakje, West Frisian kreakje, Dutch kraken, Low German kraken, French craquer (< Germanic), German krachen.
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