creak
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
creak (plural creaks)
- The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.
- French: craquement
- German: Knarren, Quietschen
- Italian: cric, scricchiolio
- Portuguese: rangido
- Russian: скри́п
- Spanish: crujido
creak (creaks, present participle creaking; past and past participle creaked)
- (intransitive) To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances.
- 1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert (author), Madame Bovary, Part III, Chapter 10:
- Then when the four ropes were arranged the coffin was placed upon them. He watched it descend; it seemed descending for ever. At last a thud was heard; the ropes creaked as they were drawn up.
- 1901, W. W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw:
- He heard the creaking of the bolt as it came slowly back, and at the same moment he found the monkey's paw, and frantically breathed his third and last wish.
- 1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert (author), Madame Bovary, Part III, Chapter 10:
- (transitive) To produce a creaking sound with.
- c. 1604–1605, William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene i]:
- Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry.
- a. 1941, Theodore Roethke, "On the Road to Woodlawn ↗", in Open House (1941)
- I miss the polished brass, the powerful black horses,
- The drivers creaking the seats of the baroque hearses
- (intransitive, figurative) To suffer from strain or old age.
- 2002, Stanley Wells, Shakespeare Survey (volume 39, page 205)
- Fascinating though this high-minded re-reading was, certain crucial joints of the play creaked a good deal under the strain.
- 2007, Francis Pryor, Britain in the Middle Ages: An Archaeological History (page 232)
- The whole basis of feudalism, especially in the more intensively farmed champion arable landscapes of the Midlands, was starting to creak.
- 2002, Stanley Wells, Shakespeare Survey (volume 39, page 205)
- French: craquer
- German: knarren, quietschen
- Italian: scricchiolare
- Portuguese: ranger
- Russian: скрипе́ть
- Spanish: crujir, chirriar, rechinar
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