Creaker

//kɹiːkə// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who, or that which, creaks.

    "[…] the bed was a creaker, and the kitchen was inhabited by a large colony of busy roaches […]"

  2. 2
    Alternative form of krieker (“pectoral sandpiper”). alt-of, alternative

Example

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"[…] the bed was a creaker, and the kitchen was inhabited by a large colony of busy roaches […]"

Etymology

From creak + -er.

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