Historical Examples. 1  There stands a gibbet by the road, on which a parricide was hanged in chains. 2  God aids no child to parricideâand thou art England's child! 3  With all your abominations you are yet a saint in comparison with a parricide. 4  Should the assassin come, it will not be with the blow of a parricide. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) John Roby Absolution to any parricide, matricide, or fratricide, for three ducats.
(intransitive) To make a croak. (transitive) To utter in a low, hoarse voice. Shakespeare The raven himself is hoarse, / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan. (intransitive, of a frog, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its cry. (slang) To die. (transitive, slang) To kill someone or something. He'd seen my face, so I had to croak him. G. K. Chesterton If Wilton croaked the criminal he did a jolly good day's work, and there's an end of it. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
DonÂ²t be such a sook. (Australia, Atlantic Canada, New Zealand, slang) A sulk or complaint; an act of sulking. I was so upset that I went home and had a sook about it.