Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tending to creak.
- adjective Shaky or infirm, as with age; decrepit.
- adjective Linguistics Of or relating to a speech sound that is produced with the vocal cords loosely compressed, resulting in irregular, very low-pitched voicing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Creaking; apt to creak.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective worn down with age or use; in poor condition.
- adjective producing a rasping or grating sound under some circumsatance.
- adjective aching when flexed; -- of body parts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Tending to
creak - adjective Worn down by overuse;
decrepit - adjective
arthritic orrheumatic - adjective linguistics Of or relating to a special kind of
phonation in which thearytenoid cartilages in thelarynx are drawn together, compressing the vocal folds.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective worn and broken down by hard use
- adjective having a rasping or grating sound
- adjective of or pertaining to arthritis
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Examples
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Instead it came first in creaky agricultural countries, and never did come where he expected it.
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Bumper car and Ferris wheel rides can charitably be described as "creaky."
Tom Doctoroff: What Foreigners Can Learn at the Shanghai Zoo Tom Doctoroff 2011
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Bumper car and Ferris wheel rides can charitably be described as "creaky."
Tom Doctoroff: What Foreigners Can Learn at the Shanghai Zoo Tom Doctoroff 2011
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However, I've also been pondering today on the possibility that the voicing here also involves laryngealization aka creaky voicing1.
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However, I've also been pondering today on the possibility that the voicing here also involves laryngealization aka creaky voicing1.
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Bumper car and Ferris wheel rides can charitably be described as "creaky."
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Tom Doctoroff 2011
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All that happens with age is the equipment gets creaky, that is it. the brain doesn't have to change at all.
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"creaky" -- will be familiar with the body of work of Brian Eno.
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"creaky" -- will be familiar with the body of work of Brian Eno.
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"creaky" -- will be familiar with the body of work of Brian Eno.
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