croaker

The easiest way to convince a croaker to write a “script” for morphine is to fake gallstones or kidney stones.

"My sister-in-law says you are a croaker, Charlotte; and she's right," cried Caroline Mason, with good-humour.

Bascom and Captain Lazaré's boy Narcisse were diving near the croaker bank.

Thirty-five of them appeared over the signature of Croaker, from which they became known as the Croaker Papers.