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creaky voice

noun

Definition of creaky voice

: vocal fry An examination of creaky voice occurring in natural conversations among relatively young educated American and Japanese speakers revealed that female speakers of American English residing in California employed creaky voice much more frequently than comparable American male and Japanese female speakers.— Ikuko Patricia Yuasa, American Speech, Fall 2010

First Known Use of creaky voice

1933, in the meaning defined above

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