A crackling feeling of emotion, like the edges of popcorn dancing inside your body, making one feel uneasy.
Walking through a haunted house gave me the Crickles. Creepy eerie frightened
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A small stream (old english)
Cricklewood (an area in London) - a crickle in the wood
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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 www.writersvillage.com 2009
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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.
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A cross between cringe and tickle
My dog just stepped on my belly button and it really crickled
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