floorcreakmap
/ˈflɔːˌkriːkmæp/nounVerified NewThe household's unwritten acoustic map of which boards, steps, and doors sound, used to move silently through one's own home.
Every creaky house has a member who can reach the kitchen at two in the morning without waking it, routing around three known boards and one complaining door. The floorcreakmap is knowledge, not equipment, and it survives renovation only briefly. New occupants must survey it from zero.
Etym. — floor + creak + map — a literal cartography of sound, kin to knifequiet's craft of domestic hush.
Rel. — knifequiet
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