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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

... person in the capacious depths of a creaky chair, stretched his long limbs out before him, and ...

— I Will Repay • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... had heard about the good cookies and came around, too, Coal and Ember on a leash. Just then they heard a soft pad-padding and creaky sounds as the cat and the grater suddenly appeared. At the same moment, the moon began to darken as the outline of Tom and Jerry appeared closer ...

— The Cat in Grandfather's House • Carl Henry Grabo

... sea-weeds, the stone from Sugar Loaf Rock, the bit from the wreck of the NORTH STAR, the gold and silver shells, the glittering geodes and pyrites, the sandal-wood fan, and all the hundred and one knick-knacks it was then the custom to collect under glass. They even ventured part way up the creaky attic stairs, but it was too dark to enter ...

— The Riverman • Stewart Edward White

... Stealing down the creaky, boxed-in stairs, he got a lantern from the kitchen and lighted it. The actual performance of this practical act made his experience of the last few minutes seem fanciful, unreal. He was no longer under the spell of that ghostly column and he was not so sure that he believed in it. To bestir himself ...

— Pee-wee Harris on the Trail • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... home we told about it and Mr. Ellsworth (he's our scoutmaster) said it was probably just the wind blowing in that creaky old thing. But after that, all the kids in Bridgeboro said the wheel was haunted. If you say a place is haunted, ...

— Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

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