0 the quality or condition of being likely to make a long, low sound when moved: --
Can we do anything about the creakiness of the floorboards?
1 the quality of being old-fashioned and not now effective: --
The enterprise was undermined by the creakiness of the technology used to implement it.
Similarly, creaky vowels tend to confine their creakiness to the first part of the vowel, often with glottal closure before modal voice: as or.
The second example concerns the creakiness of some of the machinery.
We are witnessing the consequences of an international never-never system that is now showing signs of unease and creakiness.
Here, instrumental studies often show that breathiness or creakiness persists for the duration of the vowel.
The second portion of the vowel usually possesses severely weakened breathiness or creakiness, verging on modal phonation.
Vowels bearing non-modal phonation - creakiness or breathiness - never contrast in tone.
Despite the creakiness of the material, the production was enjoyable enough.
