different between creak vs squek
creak
English
Alternative forms
- crik (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English creken, criken, metathesis of Old English cearcian (“to chatter, creak, crash, gnash”), from Proto-West Germanic *krak?n (“to crash, crack, creak”), related to Proto-Germanic *krak?n?, ultimately of imitative origin.
Compare also Old English cr?ccettan, cr?cettan (“to croak”), Albanian grykë (“throat”). More at crack.
Pronunciation
- enPR: kr?k, IPA(key): /k?i?k/
- Homophone: creek
- Rhymes: -i?k
Noun
creak (plural creaks)
- The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.
Translations
Verb
creak (third-person singular simple present creaks, present participle creaking, simple 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.
- 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
- a. 1941, Theodore Roethke, "On the Road to Woodlawn", in Open House (1941)
- (intransitive, figuratively) 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)
Derived terms
- creaky
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Acker, Crake, Kacer, acker, crake
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squek
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