creaky
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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.
- creaky tone
- creaky voice
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tending to creak
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(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