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 , andsparkle ; 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
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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.
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