screakingn.
The action of screak v.; utterance or emission of a shrill cry or grating sound.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry of emotion or pain > [noun] > scream or shriek
squealingc1325
skriking1340
shrikingc1374
shritchingc1374
skrikea1400
blaringc1440
shritch1470
scritchinga1500
shrikea1500
screak1513
skirl1513
wauling1533
wrawling1533
screamingc1540
scritch1548
skreighc1550
shright1558
screech1560
screaking1565
screeching1589
shriek1590
shrill1591
shirl1598
shrieking1602
screama1616
squalling1677
squall1709
squeal1747
skelloch1808
skreighing1816
skirling1820
sharming1823
shriekery1865
squee1938
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [noun] > harshness and shrillness > creak
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creaking1520
screaking1565
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jarg1820
complaining1839
cry1873
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Stridor To heare the screakyng or crashyng of a saw.
1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 7 So that vnder Gam vt the voice seemed as a kinde of humming, and aboue E la a kinde of constrained skricking.
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) iii. ix. 149 The noise of Water~streams, or the screekings of Grass-hoppers.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 95 Terrible Shrieks and Skreekings of Women.
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 129 These Brutes, whose Language resembled the Screeking of Bats.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality i, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 21 The screaking of a cracked fiddle.
1905 Westm. Gaz. 12 May 4/2 A silence broken only by the perpetual ‘skreeking’ of the katydids in the locust-trees.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
screakingadj.
That screaks; that makes a shrill strident sound.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [adjective] > harsh and shrill (of sound) > creak
screaking1565
creaky1834
screaky1884
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Aridus Sonus aridus, a shrill screkyng sounde.
1567 G. Turberville Epitaphes, Epigrams f. 125 I would become a Cat To combat with the creeping Mouse and scratch the screeking Rat.
1615 S. Rowlands Melancholie Knight 30 Your skreeking Parrot will distract my sence.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 384 Which joynt..moves not without a strong screaking pressure of the parts.
1825 W. Hazlitt Spirit of Age 88 With a harsh screaking voice.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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