Definitions for creaky

creaky creak·y

Spelling: [kree-kee]
IPA: /ˈkri ki/

Creaky is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in creaky (acekry).

Definitions for creaky

adjective

  1. creaking or apt to creak:
  2. run-down; dilapidated:
  3. Phonetics. (of the voice) produced by vibration of a small portion of the vocal cords while the arytenoid cartilages are held together, with little breath being released; laryngealized.

Origin of creaky

First recorded in 1825-35; creak + -y1

Examples for creaky

They must have been exhausted, lame, besides, to judge from the creaky way they moved.

It was a little unsteady and creaky to walk on, but very imposing to look at.

We'll pay a hundred dollars an hour to sit in a creaky chair.

And when Bush misled our nation into war, the creaky old son of the coalfields gave his greatest roar.

Mr Verloc heard the creaky plank in the floor, and was content.

Lovers now-a-days are much too middle-aged, and their joints are creaky.

Then he shaped with his mouth to use that and not the stairs, for the stairs were creaky.

Luckily there was a creaky board on which he had stepped a few minutes ago.

The songs, which have creaky titles like “All that Razz” and “Hooray for What's-not-good,” are belted out with pitchy gusto.

Then came a nervous shuffling of boots on the creaky boards.

Word Value for creaky
Scrable

15

Words with friends

15

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