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Ana poland Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Croaksville

hi, here's a dialog from "scrubs"(a tv series)

Cox: Uh huh. And what happened to that schoolteacher you were prattling on
about?
J.D.: Passed away.
Cox: Croaksville. That's what I thought.

what does "Croaksville" mean and is it an american idiom or a film reference?
TIA
  

Top answer

" It probably has something to do with the sounds some people make during the process - frog-like. I'm not sure. Appending "sville" to a word has been a slang usage as long as I've been around.

— Avangi

  • " It probably has something to do with the sounds some people make during the process - frog-like.
  • I'm not sure.
  • Appending "sville" to a word has been a slang usage as long as I've been around.
  • It implies that there's a place (or a town) where this thing happens routinely.
  • In some cases, it implies that the person has been sent there, but not in all cases.
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"To croak" is slang for "to die." It probably has something to do with the sounds some people make during the process - frog-like. I'm not sure.

Appending "sville" to a word has been a slang usage as long as I've been around.
It implies that there's a place (or a town) where this thing happens routinely.
In some cases, it implies that the person has been sent there, but no
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