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The verb to describe the sound of frog

Dear all,
We know that cats meow, dogs bark, wolves howls and lion roars. Then what verb do we use to decribe the sound of frog? I google a possible answer, but in vain. Hope you can come up with an answer for me. Thanks in advance. With regards,
Gloria
  

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[nq:1]Dear all, We know that cats meow, dogs bark, wolves howls and lion roars. Then what verb do we use to decribe the sound of frog? I google a possible answer, but in vain.

  • [nq:1]Dear all, We know that cats meow, dogs bark, wolves howls and lion roars.
  • Then what verb do we use to decribe the sound of frog?
  • I google a possible answer, but in vain.
  • [/nq] A frog usually croaks.
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[nq:1]Dear all, We know that cats meow, dogs bark, wolves howls and lion roars. Then what verb do we use to decribe the sound of frog? I google a possible answer, but in vain. Hope you can come up with an answer for me.[/nq]
A frog usually croaks.
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[nq:1]Dear all, We know that cats meow, dogs bark, wolves howls and lion roars. Then what verb do we use ... possible answer, but in vain. Hope you can come up with an answer for me. Thanks in advance. With regards,[/nq]
A frog croaks. Of course, some frogs don't literally croak - I remember my first encounter with the sound of bullfrogs in the USA. I thought they must be some huge mammal.
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[nq:2]Dear all, We know that cats meow, dogs bark, wolves ... Hope you can come up with an answer for me.[/nq]
[nq:1]A frog usually croaks.[/nq]
Yes indeed, for English but the words for animal sounds often vary with language. The only Greek known by many English speakers is "brekekekek coax coax," the frog call as written by classic playwright Aristophanes. In America small frogs are call
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[nq:1]Dear all, We know that cats meow, dogs bark, wolves howls and lion roars. Then what verb do we use ... possible answer, but in vain. Hope you can come up with an answer for me. Thanks in advance. With regards,[/nq]
Croak.
Granny, make a noise like a frog.
Why, Johnny?
Daddy says we'll get a lot of money when you croak.

Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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[nq:1]Dear all, We know that cats meow, dogs bark, wolves howls[/nq]
wolves howl (a wolf howls)
and lion roars.
lions roar (a lion roars)
Then
[nq:1]what verb do we use to decribe the sound of frog? I google a possible answer, but in vain. Hope you can come up with an answer for me. Thanks in advance. With regards,[/nq]
frogs croak (a frog croaks)

Ray
UK
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[nq:2]Dear all, We know that cats meow, dogs bark, wolves ... Hope you can come up with an answer for me.[/nq]
[nq:1]A frog usually croaks.[/nq]
A chook walks into a library and says "book, book". The librarian, curious to see what will happen, puts a book down in front of the chook. The chook picks up the book and walks out.
Half an hour later, the chook is back with the book in its b
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[nq:1]Yes indeed, for English but the words for animal sounds often vary with language. The only Greek known by many English speakers is "brekekekek coax coax," the frog call as written by classic playwright Aristophanes.[/nq]
Now I'm suffering from stuck major-general syndrome.
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[nq:2]Now I'm suffering from stuck major-general syndrome.[/nq]
[nq:1]Can you whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore , and if so may I watch?[/nq]
Clearly a case of the punishment fitting the crime.

Roland Hutchinson
He calls himself "the Garden State's leading violist da gamba," ... comparable to being ruler of an exceptionally small duchy. Newark (NJ) Star
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[nq:2]Dear all, We know that cats meow, dogs bark, wolves ... with an answer for me. Thanks in advance. With regards,[/nq]
[nq:1]A frog croaks. Of course, some frogs don't literally croak - I remember my first encounter with the sound of bullfrogs in the USA. I thought they must be some huge mammal.[/nq]
A bullfrog says "jug o' rum".

John Varela
Trade NEWlamps for OLDlamps for
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[nq:1]The most common frog in south-eastern Australia says "pobblebonk", which is why it is called the "banjo frog". http://frogs.org.au/frogs/species/Limnodynastes/dumerili/ By contrast, this accordion frog doesn't say much at all:

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