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.
Snarky means critical in an annoying, sarcastic, grumpy, wisecracking, or cynical sort of way. ... The adjective snarky is first recorded in 1906. It is from dialectal British snark, meaning 'to nag, find fault with', which is probably the same word as snark, snork, meaning 'to snort, snore'. (The likely connection is the derisive snorting sound of someone who is always finding fault.) Most dictionaries label snarky as Chiefly British Slang..