screakyadj.
/ˈskriːki/ Apt to screak.
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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
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1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxvii. 232 A melodeum—a sick one..pretty skreeky and colicky.
1892 Dial. Notes (U.S.) 5 231 (Kentucky Words) Skrieky, creaky.
1893 R. Bridges Humours of Court iii. ii. 2473 I'll shut him in the screeky cupboard.
1909 Dial. Notes 3 404 ‘My shoes are skreaky.’ ‘I hate skreaky doors.’
1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) Bats…making their screaky sounds. E. Knight.
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