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Screechy

adjective
1.
Having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge.  Synonyms: screaky, squeaking, squeaky, squealing.






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"Screechy" Quotes from Famous Books



... you've pulled the wool over my eyes, Effie," Hank went on with a screechy laugh, disregarding the other man completely. "Don't think I don't know why you're suddenly going to have a ...
— The Moon is Green • Fritz Reuter Leiber

... droned and fiddled all night, and when the katydids quit at daybreak, other grasshoppers and cicadas were ready to take their places in the screechy orchestra. Night and day they shrill their ceaseless music. It is all masculine love music, as much an expression of their tender feelings towards listening maidens, as the old troubadour songs to fair ladies or as the exquisite song of the rose-breasted ...
— Some Summer Days in Iowa • Frederick John Lazell



Words linked to "Screechy" :   screech, squeaky, high-pitched, high



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