nonce-wd. [f. CROAK v. or CROAKER: see -ERY.] Croakings collectively.

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1865.  Carlyle, Fredk. Gt. (1873), VI. XVI. vi. 193. Friedrich, in answer to new cunning croakeries and contrivances … has answered him like a king. Ibid. (1867), Remin. (1881), II. 186. A croakery of crawling things, instead of a speaking by men.

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