creakn.

Brit.

/kriːk/, U.S.

/krik/

Etymology: < creak v.

a. A strident noise, as of an ungreased hinge, new boots, etc.; a harsh squeak.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [noun] > harshness and shrillness > creak

screak1513

creaking1520

screaking1565

creak1606

jarg1820

complaining1839

cry1873

1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 99 A wagging leafe, a puff, a crack, Yea, the least creake shall make thee turne thy back.

1832 H. Martineau Hill & Valley iii. 46 Roused by a creak and screech of the latticed window.

1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists i. 18 If he wears buckles and square-toed shoes..you never hear their creak.

1878 in G. P. Lathrop Masque of Poets 53 The labouring vessel, with creak and strain, Struggled and groaned like a thing in pain.

b. The noise made by a cricket. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Orthoptera > family Gryllidae > member of (cricket) > noise made by

creak1842

1842 H. D. Thoreau in Dial July 21 Cheery as the creak of crickets.

†2. A watchman's rattle. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > signalling with other sounding instruments > [noun] > watchman's rattle

rapper1810

clap-stick1834

creak1837

1837 Ann. Reg. 1836 Chron. 46/1 He heard Dillon..springing his creak.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

creakv.

Brit.

/kriːk/, U.S.

/krik/

Forms: Middle English–1500s creke, Middle English–1500s kreke, 1500s–1600s creake, 1600s creeke, 1600s–1800s creek, 1600s– creak.

Etymology: Apparently echoic; compare crake, and croak. The Middle English pronunciation would be /krɛːk/ and that of the 16th cent. /kreːk/: the application of the verb has probably been modified as the vowel-sound became narrowed.

†1. intransitive. Formerly: To utter a harsh cry: said of crows, rooks, etc., where croak n. is now used; also of geese, etc. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > cry or call > harshly

creakc1325

crakec1386

yawpc1400

crunk1565

cawk1761

quawk1821

clang1832

clank1865

squark1871

c1325 Gloss. W. de Biblesworth in Wright Voc. 152 Le bouf mugist (lowes), la grwe growle (crane lounet, Camb. MS. crekes.).

1482 W. Caxton Trevisa's Higden vi. xxv. 317 A crowe that she hadde norysshed creked ludder than he was wonte.

1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Fiij If that the Crow could feede in whishte, Not creake nor make adoe.

1574 J. Baret Aluearie G 9 To Gagle or creake like a goose. Glacito.

1604 Fr. Bacon's Proph. 50 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. IV. 270 The Henne, the Goose, the Ducke, Might cackle, creake, and quacke.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 304 The Raven or Crow Creeking clear..signifies fair weather.

a. intransitive. To make a harsh shrill grating sound, as a hinge or axle turning with undue friction, or a hard tough substance under pressure or strain. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > sound shrill [verb (intransitive)] > creak

chirkc1386

chark1393

fratchc1440

geig1513

jarg1513

graislea1522

cry?1523

screak1565

creak1582

crake1656

complain1722

to cry out1781

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 13 And gates with the metal dooe creake in shrilbated harshing.

1615 J. Stephens Ess. & Characters (new ed.) 37 The Chariot driver ask'd his wheele Wherfore it creak'd?

1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. Pref. p. vii The Door creaks; The Actor comes upon the Stage.

1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 35 b That is..best which being rubb'd with the Hand creeks the most.

1783 Hibernian Mag. Apr. 191/2 The door..creaked on its hinges.

1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. vi. 113 How that door creaks!

1842 W. Wordsworth Guilt & Sorrow xvi, in Poems Early & Late Years 13 No swinging sign-board creaked from cottage elm.

1875 A. Maclaren Serm. 2nd Ser. vii. 121 The swaying branches creak and groan.

a1893 Mod. New shoes are apt to creak.

1938 F. S. Fitzgerald Let. 20 Jan. (1964) 564 The last pages..begin to creak from 116 on.

1962 Listener 15 Nov. 796/2 The Civil Service is already needing reform, and some people have said that even the limited extra responsibility..may make it creak.

b. transferred. Said of the strident noise of crickets, grasshoppers, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [verb (intransitive)] > emit sound (of cricket)

creak1653

chickera1817

1653 [implied in: H. Cogan tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. 182 The creaking of the grashoppers. (at creaking n. a)].

1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 54 Where crickets creak.

c. To move with creaking.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > with specific noise

squatter1786

clatter1810

creak1834

crunch1853

craunch1857

chuff1899

squish1952

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > sound shrill [verb (intransitive)] > creak > proceed with

creak1834

1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 57 With a long, indented bone..he..creaks along the gunnel of the boat.

1868 J. G. Whittier in Atlantic Monthly Jan. 1 A single hay-cart down the dusty road Creaks slowly.

3. intransitive. To speak in a strident or querulous tone. (Used in contempt.) Obsolete.In early use allied to 1; in more recent use to 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > shrilly or in a weak voice

creakc1440

shrillc1440

peep1567

chirp1604

pipe1675

peek1808

cheep1813

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [verb (intransitive)] > utter in shrill voice

creakc1440

pipe1648

c1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine ii. 1006 Ye may weel karpe, stryue, clatere, and creke.

c1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine iv. 453 Lete hem calle, lady, lete hem crye and creke [rhyme break], Suffyseth you if ye may leue in pees.

1566 T. Drant in tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Cviij I mayntaynde it with toothe and nayle, In all that I coulde creake.

1596 P. Colse Penelopes Complaint sig. H1 Against me dare they not to creake [rhyme quake].

1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxvii. xi. 321 To creake and vaunt in a loftie tragicall note.

1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre v. v. 85 in Wks. II Nor..[bear me down] with his treble creeking, though he creeke like the chariot wheeles of Satan.

1661 R. Baillie Let. 18 Apr. in O. Airy Lauderdale Papers (1884) I. 96 I am ane ill beggar, yit I must still creak to your l[ordship] whil I live..for your presbiterians at London ther misguiding hes slain me.

4. transitive. To cause to make a creaking noise.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > shrill [verb (transitive)] > creak

creaka1616

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. i. 31 Creeking my shooes on the plaine Masonry.

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 24 The wind would..creak the door to and fro.

Phrases

†P1. to cry creak: to confess oneself beaten or in error; to give up the contest; to give in. Obsolete. (Cf. to cry craven at craven adj. 1b, to cry (or say) creant at creant adj.¹ 1.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > defeat or overthrow > be defeated or overthrown [verb (intransitive)] > confess oneself beaten

to cry creak?1562

to give, lay down, yield the bucklers1592

to cry cravena1634

holler1845

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)] > give way or give in

benda1400

sink?a1513

to give over1530

to cry creak?1562

yield1576

to hold up1596

succumb1604

to give in1616

to hoist, lower, strike the topsaila1629

to cry cravena1634

to give up or cross the cudgels1654

incumb1656

to fall in1667

to knock under1670

to knock under board, under (the) table1692

to strike underc1730

knuckle down1735

to throw (also chuck) up the sponge1860

chuck up (the sponge)1864

to throw in one's hand1893

to sky the wipe (or towel)1907

to drop one's bundle1915

to throw (chuck, or toss) in the towel1915

to buckle up1927

?1562 Thersytes sig. A.iii I woulde make the knaues to crye creke.

1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande vi. f. 22/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I When the prefixed daie [for the combat] approched neere, Vescy..beganne to crye creake, and secretely sayled into Fraunce.

1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 42^v When tilth plows breake, poore cattle cries creake.

1582 T. Watson Passionate Cent. of Loue i, in Poems (1870) 37 I now cry creake that ere I scorned loue.

1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 164 This Crauen Cocke, after..crowing a Conquest, being ready presently to Cry Creake.

P2. With go, in sense: With a creak, with a creaking noise. (Cf. bang v.¹, bump v.¹, crack v., etc.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [adverb] > harsh and shrill > creak

creakingly1832

creak1848

creakily1901

1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. xvii. 312 Creak, creak, went the stairs. Her father was coming down.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	creak
释义	creakn. Brit. /kriːk/, U.S. /krik/ Etymology: < creak v. 1. a. A strident noise, as of an ungreased hinge, new boots, etc.; a harsh squeak. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [noun] > harshness and shrillness > creak screak1513 creaking1520 screaking1565 creak1606 jarg1820 complaining1839 cry1873 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 99 A wagging leafe, a puff, a crack, Yea, the least creake shall make thee turne thy back. 1832 H. Martineau Hill & Valley iii. 46 Roused by a creak and screech of the latticed window. 1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists i. 18 If he wears buckles and square-toed shoes..you never hear their creak. 1878 in G. P. Lathrop Masque of Poets 53 The labouring vessel, with creak and strain, Struggled and groaned like a thing in pain. b. The noise made by a cricket. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Orthoptera > family Gryllidae > member of (cricket) > noise made by creak1842 1842 H. D. Thoreau in Dial July 21 Cheery as the creak of crickets. †2. A watchman's rattle. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > signalling with other sounding instruments > [noun] > watchman's rattle rapper1810 clap-stick1834 creak1837 1837 Ann. Reg. 1836 Chron. 46/1 He heard Dillon..springing his creak. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). creakv. Brit. /kriːk/, U.S. /krik/ Forms: Middle English–1500s creke, Middle English–1500s kreke, 1500s–1600s creake, 1600s creeke, 1600s–1800s creek, 1600s– creak. Etymology: Apparently echoic; compare crake, and croak. The Middle English pronunciation would be /krɛːk/ and that of the 16th cent. /kreːk/: the application of the verb has probably been modified as the vowel-sound became narrowed. †1. intransitive. Formerly: To utter a harsh cry: said of crows, rooks, etc., where croak n. is now used; also of geese, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > cry or call > harshly creakc1325 crakec1386 yawpc1400 crunk1565 cawk1761 quawk1821 clang1832 clank1865 squark1871 c1325 Gloss. W. de Biblesworth in Wright Voc. 152 Le bouf mugist (lowes), la grwe growle (crane lounet, Camb. MS. crekes.). 1482 W. Caxton Trevisa's Higden vi. xxv. 317 A crowe that she hadde norysshed creked ludder than he was wonte. 1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Fiij If that the Crow could feede in whishte, Not creake nor make adoe. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie G 9 To Gagle or creake like a goose. Glacito. 1604 Fr. Bacon's Proph. 50 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. IV. 270 The Henne, the Goose, the Ducke, Might cackle, creake, and quacke. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 304 The Raven or Crow Creeking clear..signifies fair weather. 2. a. intransitive. To make a harsh shrill grating sound, as a hinge or axle turning with undue friction, or a hard tough substance under pressure or strain. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > sound shrill [verb (intransitive)] > creak chirkc1386 chark1393 fratchc1440 geig1513 jarg1513 graislea1522 cry?1523 screak1565 creak1582 crake1656 complain1722 to cry out1781 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 13 And gates with the metal dooe creake in shrilbated harshing. 1615 J. Stephens Ess. & Characters (new ed.) 37 The Chariot driver ask'd his wheele Wherfore it creak'd? 1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. Pref. p. vii The Door creaks; The Actor comes upon the Stage. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 35 b That is..best which being rubb'd with the Hand creeks the most. 1783 Hibernian Mag. Apr. 191/2 The door..creaked on its hinges. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. vi. 113 How that door creaks! 1842 W. Wordsworth Guilt & Sorrow xvi, in Poems Early & Late Years 13 No swinging sign-board creaked from cottage elm. 1875 A. Maclaren Serm. 2nd Ser. vii. 121 The swaying branches creak and groan. a1893 Mod. New shoes are apt to creak. 1938 F. S. Fitzgerald Let. 20 Jan. (1964) 564 The last pages..begin to creak from 116 on. 1962 Listener 15 Nov. 796/2 The Civil Service is already needing reform, and some people have said that even the limited extra responsibility..may make it creak. b. transferred. Said of the strident noise of crickets, grasshoppers, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [verb (intransitive)] > emit sound (of cricket) creak1653 chickera1817 1653 [implied in: H. Cogan tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. 182 The creaking of the grashoppers. (at creaking n. a)]. 1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 54 Where crickets creak. c. To move with creaking. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > with specific noise squatter1786 clatter1810 creak1834 crunch1853 craunch1857 chuff1899 squish1952 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > sound shrill [verb (intransitive)] > creak > proceed with creak1834 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 57 With a long, indented bone..he..creaks along the gunnel of the boat. 1868 J. G. Whittier in Atlantic Monthly Jan. 1 A single hay-cart down the dusty road Creaks slowly. 3. intransitive. To speak in a strident or querulous tone. (Used in contempt.) Obsolete.In early use allied to 1; in more recent use to 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > shrilly or in a weak voice creakc1440 shrillc1440 peep1567 chirp1604 pipe1675 peek1808 cheep1813 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [verb (intransitive)] > utter in shrill voice creakc1440 pipe1648 c1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine ii. 1006 Ye may weel karpe, stryue, clatere, and creke. c1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine iv. 453 Lete hem calle, lady, lete hem crye and creke [rhyme break], Suffyseth you if ye may leue in pees. 1566 T. Drant in tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Cviij I mayntaynde it with toothe and nayle, In all that I coulde creake. 1596 P. Colse Penelopes Complaint sig. H1 Against me dare they not to creake [rhyme quake]. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxvii. xi. 321 To creake and vaunt in a loftie tragicall note. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre v. v. 85 in Wks. II Nor..[bear me down] with his treble creeking, though he creeke like the chariot wheeles of Satan. 1661 R. Baillie Let. 18 Apr. in O. Airy Lauderdale Papers (1884) I. 96 I am ane ill beggar, yit I must still creak to your l[ordship] whil I live..for your presbiterians at London ther misguiding hes slain me. 4. transitive. To cause to make a creaking noise. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > shrill [verb (transitive)] > creak creaka1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. i. 31 Creeking my shooes on the plaine Masonry. View more context for this quotation 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 24 The wind would..creak the door to and fro. Phrases †P1. to cry creak: to confess oneself beaten or in error; to give up the contest; to give in. Obsolete. (Cf. to cry craven at craven adj. 1b, to cry (or say) creant at creant adj.¹ 1.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > defeat or overthrow > be defeated or overthrown [verb (intransitive)] > confess oneself beaten to cry creak?1562 to give, lay down, yield the bucklers1592 to cry cravena1634 holler1845 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)] > give way or give in benda1400 sink?a1513 to give over1530 to cry creak?1562 yield1576 to hold up1596 succumb1604 to give in1616 to hoist, lower, strike the topsaila1629 to cry cravena1634 to give up or cross the cudgels1654 incumb1656 to fall in1667 to knock under1670 to knock under board, under (the) table1692 to strike underc1730 knuckle down1735 to throw (also chuck) up the sponge1860 chuck up (the sponge)1864 to throw in one's hand1893 to sky the wipe (or towel)1907 to drop one's bundle1915 to throw (chuck, or toss) in the towel1915 to buckle up1927 ?1562 Thersytes sig. A.iii I woulde make the knaues to crye creke. 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande vi. f. 22/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I When the prefixed daie [for the combat] approched neere, Vescy..beganne to crye creake, and secretely sayled into Fraunce. 1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 42^v When tilth plows breake, poore cattle cries creake. 1582 T. Watson Passionate Cent. of Loue i, in Poems (1870) 37 I now cry creake that ere I scorned loue. 1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 164 This Crauen Cocke, after..crowing a Conquest, being ready presently to Cry Creake. P2. With go, in sense: With a creak, with a creaking noise. (Cf. bang v.¹, bump v.¹, crack v., etc.) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [adverb] > harsh and shrill > creak creakingly1832 creak1848 creakily1901 1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. xvii. 312 Creak, creak, went the stairs. Her father was coming down. 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