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Squeaky   /skwˈiki/   Listen
Squeaky

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






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"Squeaky" Quotes from Famous Books



... manage," and, lifting Foy in his arms as though he had been a baby, he passed with the jailers out of the den, down the stair, and into the court-room. Here, seated behind a table, they found Ramiro and the little, squeaky-voiced, red-faced Inquisitor. ...
— Lysbeth - A Tale Of The Dutch • H. Rider Haggard

... said Darrow, "but he might give us a little of his squeaky company occasionally. Boys, I'll tell you something about seals. The old bull seals have long, stiff whiskers—a foot long. Do you know there's a market for those whiskers? Well, there is. The Chinese mount them in gold and use them for cleaners for their long pipes. Each whisker is ...
— The Mystery • Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams

... a hammer and strike them all to the ground, and then to run through the street, banging at the skulls of all he met. But then the journeyman took the lasts off him, and the pain came back to him, and his whole miserable plight. He heard Jeppe's squeaky voice, and looked at the young master, who sat there submissively, without having the courage to express his opinion, and all at once he felt terribly sorry ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo

... daily more proud of Ranjoor Singh, and most of us forgetting we had ever doubted him. Once we rode for ten miles side by side in the darkness with a Turkish column that had been sent to hunt for us! Perhaps they mistook our squeaky old carts for their cannon; that had camped for the night unknown to them! Next day we told some Kurds where to find the cannon, and doubtless the Kurds made trouble. We let the column alone, for it was too big for us—about two regiments, I think. ...
— Hira Singh - When India came to fight in Flanders • Talbot Mundy

... nicest she has written us yet. And this is the way that things stand at present: Papa is still writing the Fetich, and I am helping him; evenings, Fee and I have great times in the store-room, with the door closed and heavily muffled, giving and receiving music lessons, and practising with our squeaky violins,—we really do have lots ...
— We Ten - Or, The Story of the Roses • Lyda Farrington Kraus


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