Verboticism: Creakese
DEFINITION: n. Strange sounds that keep you awake in the middle of the night. v. To lie in bed unable to sleep because you keep hearing weird sounds.
Creakese
Created by: arrrteest
Pronunciation: creek - eez
Sentence: The house was speaking its creepy creakease with all its settling and contracting in the night. Wide-eyed and drowsily alert maggie lie in bed imagining ghosts and gobblins milling about.
Etymology: creak, sound of a rusty gate or noisy floorboards + ese, of a language
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