Sounding rough, hoarse, or like a frog; having a harsh rasping quality to the voice or sound.
Derived from 'croak,' an onomatopoetic word representing a frog's or raven's sound, with the suffix -y added to form an adjective.
Frogs and ravens both produce 'croaky' sounds using completely different mechanisms—frogs use vocal sacs and ravens use specialized syrinx structures, yet both sounds were so distinctive humans used one word to describe them.
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