v. Sc. Also croot. [app. onomatopœic: the initial part being as in crow, croak, creak, and kindred verbs, and the latter part imitative or suggestive of abrupt or grunting sound: cf. also croud, CROOD v.] intr. To make abrupt croaking or murmuring noises; to coo as a dove. Rarely trans.
1549. Compl. Scot., vi. 60. The dou croutit hyr sad sang.
1613. Bp. Forbes, Comm. Rev. (1614), 158 (Jam.). Men led with the spirit of Satan … sent abroad, as crouting frogges.
a. 1693. Urquhart, Rabelais, III. xiii. 107. The … crouting of Cormorants.
1806. R. Jamieson, Pop. Ball., I. 298 (Jam.). And O, as he rattled and roar’d, And graen’d, and mutter’d, and crouted.
1808. Jamieson, s.v., The belly is said to croot, when there is a noise in the intestines.
