Word for the Day

Today's word is coaxation: a croaking especially of frogs, from Latin coaxatus (past participle of coaxare to croak, probably from Greek koax noise made by a frog).

It has nothing to do with broadband or cable wiring.

The OED features (as it always does) the earliest written reference to this word, from 1642: "D. Featley Καταβαπτισται Καταπτυστοι 227 (T.), I hope we shall see no more of their frog-galliards, nor hear of their harsh croaking and coaxation either in the pulpit or the press."