stridulate, clitter
(verb) make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures; “male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers stridulate”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
clitter (third-person singular simple present clitters, present participle clittering, simple past and past participle clittered)
To clatter lightly; to make a soft rattling noise.
clitter (countable and uncountable, plural clitters)
Loose stones on hillsides deposited by weathering.
• scree
Source: Wiktionary
3 May 2025
(adjective) worth having or seeking or achieving; “a desirable job”; “computer with many desirable features”; “a desirable outcome”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
