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单词 brekekekex
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Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek βρεκεκεκέξ.
Etymology: < ancient Greek βρεκεκεκέξ (more fully βρεκεκεκέξ κοάξ κοάξ: Aristophanes Frogs 209 et seq.), imitative of the croaking of frogs.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˌbrekekeˈkex.
< Greek βρεκεκεκέξ, used by Aristophanes to imitate the croaking of frogs.
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the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > frog > croak or croaking
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1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 78 Frogs with their brekekekex brekekekex coax.
1656 J. Trapp Comm. Matt. xxii. 33 Those Romish frogs, the Jesuits, will never have done, though never so much set down, but be still up with their hateful Brekekekex-coax-coax.
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