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Definition of Croakers
1. croaker [n] - See also: croaker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Croakers
Literary usage of Croakers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1901)
"SOCIETY croakers. 1. A portion of a Journal kept by Thomas Raikes, Esq., from
1831 to 1847. Two vols. London : Longmans, 1858. 2. Greville Memoirs. ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"A WINTER'S TALE From < The croakers > " A merry heart goes all the way, A sad
one tires in a mile-a.* —WINTER'S TALE. ''T^HE man who frets at worldly strife ..."
3. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones (1866)
"The intimation, however, that all applications for " pardon," etc. have been and
are still favorably entertained, will certainly cause many of our croakers ..."
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