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adjective

creaky adj.

Worn down with age or use; in poor condition.

Synonyms: decrepit, flea-bitten, run-down, rundown, woebegone.

Producing a rasping or grating sound under some circumsatance; as, they were alerted by the creaky stairs; my creaky kitchen door needs oiling.

Synonyms: creaking, screaky.

Aching when flexed; of body parts; as, my creaky old joints.

Synonyms: arthritic, rheumatic, rheumatoid.

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Etymology of 'Creaky'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Creaky" Quotes from Famous Books

... awakened ideas and thoughts took the form of a definite aspiration on the day I graduated from the grammar school. And what a day that was! The girls in white dresses, with fresh ribbons in their hair; the boys in new suits and creaky shoes; the great crowd of parents and friends; the flowers, the prizes and congratulations, made the day seem to me one of the greatest importance. I was on the program, and played a piano solo which was received by the audience with that amount of applause which I had come ...

— The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man • James Weldon Johnson

... way home, singing through the forest in his creaky old voice until he came near the little wooden house where he lived with the old woman. As soon as he came near there he slipped along like any mouse. And as soon as he put his head inside the door ...

— Old Peter's Russian Tales • Arthur Ransome

... that by breathing on your coat sleeve to kill the whisky you can fool your pa, you are wrong. Your pa in his day ate three carloads of cardamon seeds and cloves and used listerine by the barrel. He knew which was the creaky step on the stairs in his father's house and used to avoid it coming in at night, just as you do now, and he knows just what you are doing. More than that, your pa speaks from the bitterest kind of experience ...

— In Our Town • William Allen White

... Foaming Quart—was open, and I could see the bar itself, with shelves rising behind it and the upright handles of a beer-engine at one end. Someone whom I could not see was evidently unbolting and unlocking the principal entrance to the inn. Then I heard the scraping of a creaky portal on the floor. ...

— The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories • Arnold Bennett

... the sharp, creaky voice of Gilray as if in answer to the question, and the little clerk, who had knocked once or twice unnoticed, opened the door and ushered ...

— The Firm of Girdlestone • Arthur Conan Doyle

... three. For half an hour Babbitt sat looking at a calendar and a clock on a whitewashed wall. The chair was hard and mean and creaky. People went through the office and, he thought, stared at him. He felt a belligerent defiance which broke into a wincing fear of this machine which ...

— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis

Words linked to "Creaky" : flea-bitten, creak, run-down, woebegone, rheumatic, derelict, screaky, arthritic, rheumatoid, worn, rheumy, noisy, unhealthy, decrepit