brekekekex

Interjection

1. (nonce-word) Nonsense word supposedly imitative of frogs.
   • 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...1871, John Stuart Blackie, The Musical 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

Verb

brekekekex (third-person singular simple present brekekekexes, present participle brekekekexing, simple past and past participle brekekekexed)

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