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creak

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishcreken,criken, metathesis ofOld Englishcearcian(“to chatter, creak, crash, gnash”), fromProto-West Germanic*krakōn(“to crash, crack, creak”), fromProto-Germanic*krakōną, fromProto-Indo-European*gerh₂-(“to make a sound, cry hoarsely”), ultimately ofimitative origin.[1]

Compare alsoOld Englishcrǣccettan,crācettan(“to croak”),Albaniangrykë(“throat”). More atcrack.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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creak (pluralcreaks)

  1. The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.

Derived terms

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Translations

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the sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking

Verb

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creak (third-person singular simple presentcreaks,present participlecreaking,simple past and past participlecreaked)

  1. (intransitive) To make a prolonged sharpgrating orsqueaking sound, as by thefriction 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 ropescreaked as they were drawn up.
    • 1901,W. W. Jacobs,The Monkey's Paw:
      He heard thecreaking 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.
  2. (transitive) To produce a creaking sound with.
  3. (intransitive, figurative) To suffer from strain or old age.
    • 2002, Stanley Wells,Shakespeare Survey, volume39, page205:
      Fascinating though this high-minded re-reading was, certain crucial joints of the playcreaked a good deal under the strain.
    • 2007, Francis Pryor,Britain in the Middle Ages: An Archaeological History, page232:
      The whole basis of feudalism, especially in the more intensively farmed champion arable landscapes of the Midlands, was starting tocreak.

Derived terms

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Translations

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to make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound
to produce a creaking sound with

References

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  1. ^James A. H. Murrayet al., editors (1884–1928), “Creak”, inA New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London:Clarendon Press,→OCLC.

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