English
Etymology
Greek βÏ�εκεκεκÎξ, via Aristophanes.
Noun
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- Nonsense word supposedly imitative of frogs.
#:Brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax,
#:Brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax!
#:We children of the fountain and the lake
#:Let us wake
#:Our full choir-shout, as the flutes are ringing out,
#:Our symphony of clear-voiced song.
#:The song we used to love in the Marshland up above,
#:In praise of Dionysus to produce,
#:Of Nysaean Dionysus, son of Zeus,
#:When the revel-tipsy throng, all crapulous and gay,
#:To our precinct reeled along on the holy Pitcher day,
#:Brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax. -- Chorus of the frogs, from The Frogs'' of Aristophanes
ru:brekekekex
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