Word Meanings - SQUEAK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To utter a sharp, shrill cry, usually of short duration; to cry with an acute tone, as an animal; or, to make a sharp, disagreeable noise, as a pipe or quill, a wagon wheel, a door; to creak. Who can endure to hear one of the rough old Romans

Additional info about word: SQUEAK

1. To utter a sharp, shrill cry, usually of short duration; to cry with an acute tone, as an animal; or, to make a sharp, disagreeable noise, as a pipe or quill, a wagon wheel, a door; to creak. Who can endure to hear one of the rough old Romans squeaking through the mouth of an eunuch Addison. Zoilus calls the companions of Ulysses the "squeaking pigs" of Homer. Pope. 2. To break silence or secrecy for fear of pain or punishment; to speak; to confess. If he be obstinate, put a civil question to him upon the rack, and he squeaks, I warrant him. Dryden.

Related words: (words related to SQUEAK)

• CREAK
  Thew sound produced by anuthing that creaks; a creaking. Roget.
• ROUGHING-IN
  The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it.
• ROUGHEN
  To grow or become rough.
• ROUGHT
  imp. of Reach.
• ROUGHHEWN
  1. Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished. 2. Of coarse manners; rude; uncultivated; rough-grained. "A roughhewn seaman." Bacon.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• ROUGHLEG
  Any one of several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also rough- legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard. Note: The best known species is Archibuteo lagopus of Northern Europe,
• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• ROUGHINGS
  Rowen.
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• ROUGHSHOD
  Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse. To ride roughshod, to pursue a course regardless of the pain or distress it may cause others.
• WAGON
  The Dipper, or Charles's Wain. Note: This word and its compounds are often written with two g's , chiefly in England. The forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however, etymologically preferable, and in the United States are almost universally used.
• ROUGHCAST
  1. A rude model; the rudimentary, unfinished form of a thing. 2. A kind of plastering made of lime, with a mixture of shells or pebbles, used for covering buildings. Shak.
• SHRILL-TONGUED
  Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
  Animality.
• CATHERINE WHEEL
  See WINDOW (more info) Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in allusion to her
• UNUTTERABLE
  Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish. Sighed and looked unutterable things. Thomson. -- Un*ut"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*ut"ter*a*bly, adv.
• COQUILLE
  A shell or shell-like dish or mold in which viands are served. The expansion of the guard of a sword, dagger, etc. A form of ruching used as a dress trimming or for neckwear, and named from the manner in which it is gathered or fulled.
• MUTTERER
  One who mutters.
• FOUR-WHEELER
  A vehicle having four wheels.
• GUTTER
  1. A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough. 2. A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water. Gutters running with ale. Macaulay. 3. Any narrow channel or groove;
• SQUILLITIC
  Of or pertaining to squills. "Squillitic vinegar." Holland.
• BUTTER-SCOTCH
  A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Dickens.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• OBDURATION
  A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart.