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
stridulate (third-person singular simple present stridulates, present participle stridulating, simple past and past participle stridulated)
(intransitive) To make a high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers do, by rubbing certain body parts together.
Synonyms: chirp, chirr
Source: Wiktionary
Strid"u*late, v. t. Etym: [See Stridulous.]
Definition: To make a shrill, creaking noise; specifically (Zoöl.),
Definition: to make a shrill or musical sound, such as is made by the males of many insects.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
