▪ I. crout, n.
see sour-crout.
▪ II. crout, v. Sc.
(kruːt, kraʊt)
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. |