Stridulate (verb)
strid-oo-layt
(of an insect, especially a male cricket or grasshopper) make a shrill sound by rubbing the legs, wings, or other parts of the body together.
Mid 19th century: from French striduler, from Latin stridulus ‘creaking’, from the verb stridere.
Example sentences
“The stridulating crickets added sound to the late hour.”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
