brekekekex

alternative brek-kek-kex

1. nonce wordNonsense word supposedly imitative of frogs.

   Iris: He warbled a plaintive rondo — Of brekekekex koax — Chorus: Koax! Iris: The other frogs thought it splendid, Most splendid — Chorus: Most splendid! Iris: Applauding him when he ended With brekekekex koax — Chorus:

   1898, Harry Greenbank, Adrian Ross (lyrics), “A Frog he lived in a Pond”, in A Greek Slave

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   Brekekekex! co-ax! co-ax! O happy, happy frogs! How sweet ye sing! would God that I Upon the sweet bubbling pool might lie, And sun myself to-day With you! No curtained bride, I ween, Nor pillowed babe, nor cushioned queen, Nor tiny fay on emerald green, Nor silken lady gray, Lies on a softer couch. O Heaven!

   1871, John Stuart Blackie, The Musical Frogs

present singular third person brekekekexes · participle present brekekekexing · participle past brekekekexed · past brekekekexed · alternative brek-kek-kex

1. To make a brekekekex sound; to ribbit.

   There was not a fisherman on the river, not a peasant in the fields, nothing but those little vole-catchers and skimming wagtails, the waterbirds and the massed larks and the frogs, whose steady diurnal croak, though universal, seemed milder than the full-moon brekekekexing the night before.

   1977, Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts, page 306