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crake

Pronunciation: /ˈkɹeɪk/

The English word “crake” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.
  2. A crack; a boast.

verb

  1. To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.
  2. To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.

Etymology

From Middle English crak, crake, from Old Norse kráka (“crow”), from Proto-Germanic *krak-, *kra- (“to croak, caw”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂-, itself onomatopoeic.

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