CREAKY

arthritic, creaky, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy

(adjective) of or pertaining to arthritis; “my creaky old joints”; “rheumy with age and grief”

creaky, screaky

(adjective) having a rasping or grating sound; “creaky stairs”

creaky, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone

(adjective) worn and broken down by hard use; “a creaky shack”; “a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape”; “a flea-bitten sofa”; “a run-down neighborhood”; “a woebegone old shack”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

creaky (comparative creakier, superlative creakiest)

Tending to creak

Worn down by overuse; decrepit

arthritic or rheumatic

(linguistics) Of or relating to a special kind of phonation in which the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx are drawn together, compressing the vocal folds.

Anagrams

• cakery, yacker

Source: Wiktionary



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