stridulate

Etymology

Back-formation from stridulation. (From earlier term stridulous; from Latin strīdulus (“giving a shrill sound, creaking”), from strīdō (“utter a shrill or harsh sound; creak, shriek, grate, hiss”))

verb

1. (intransitive) To make a high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers do, by rubbing certain body parts together.
   A window was open, and the crickets were stridulating at an ominous speed in the black motionless foliage. 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 191
   The crickets stridulated their everlasting monotonous meaningful note. 1984, John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick, page 55