Crickle

What is Crickle?


1.

One of the onomatapoeic sounds a wood-burning fire makes; esp. when damp or wet.

<i>'<b>Crickle</b>, crackle, hiss, and sparkle; flickering flames, fighting forest flurries, lick and ignite, in turn, moss, bark, twigs, sticks, and logs, sending sizzling spurts of steam skedaddling.</i>

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John Hamshare (1940 - ): quoted, with permission, from the Masterful Sentences course writersvillage 2009

See crackle, spark, cinder, clinker

2.

1. Stiffness of joints or body aches related to exsessive physical exertion. Rooted in the sounds "crickling" bones and joints make.

2. Old and worn and approaching a useless state.

3. General insult related to age and physical decay.

My knees are so beat from playing Ultimate. total crickel.

Tha old man had a bad case of the crickles.

My car is so crickly, it barely makes it down the road.

3.

the most amazing creature

She is the crickle of the bunch.

See lovely, nice, amazing, herd, runt


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