Creak vs Uguisubari - What's the difference?
creak | uguisubari |
To make a prolonged sharp grating]] or [[squeak, squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances.
* 1856 , Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), (Gustave Flaubert) (author), (Madame Bovary), Part III, Chapter 10:
* 1901 , , (w, The Monkey's Paw):
To produce a creaking sound with.
* Shakespeare
* 20th century , Theodore Roethke,
Wooden floors specifically designed to creak or "chirp" at the slightest pressure, thus warning the inhabitants of any surreptitious approach. The most famous surviving floors are in Kyoto at Nijo Castle, Japan.
(Nightingale floor)
As nouns the difference between creak and uguisubari
is that creak is the sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking while uguisubari is wooden floors specifically designed to creak or "chirp" at the slightest pressure, thus warning the inhabitants of any surreptitious approach. The most famous surviving floors are in Kyoto at Nijo Castle, Japan.As a verb creak
is to make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances.creak
English
Verb
(en verb)- Then when the four ropes were arranged the coffin was placed upon them. He watched it descend; it seemed descending for ever. At last a thud was heard; the ropes creaked as they were drawn up.
- He heard the creaking of the bolt as it came slowly back, and at the same moment he found the monkey's paw, and frantically breathed his third and last wish.
- Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry.
On the Road to Woodlawn
- I miss the polished brass, the powerful black horses,
- The drivers creaking the seats of the baroque hearses