crepitate
verb
[ ˈkrɛpɪteɪt ]
• make a crackling sound.
• "the night crepitates with an airy whistling cacophony"
Origin:
early 17th century (in the sense ‘break wind’): from Latin crepitat- ‘crackled, rustled’, from the verb crepitare, from crepare ‘to rattle’.
