squeal

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Only her squeal was the same when, as of yore, she flopped a glistening chub on the bank, and another and another.

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  1. intransitive verb To give forth a loud shrill cry or sound.
  2. intransitive verb Slang To turn informer; betray an accomplice or secret.
  3. transitive verb To utter or produce with a squeal.

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  • As I was shutting the door of the menagerie- which was in the garden and detached from the dwelling-house—I heard the rabbit squeal, and going back I found it was the python who had seized it. —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
  • We hear the pig squeal, but his squeal was perfect silence until it reached our ear drums. —  Modern Mechanix
  • Then Gavril described the process which he had called the squeal-pig method of wolf-hunting You get a very young pig,' he said, 'and put it into a sack. —  Chatterbox, 1906
  • "Mac" is the head of the Armour Fertilizer Works and is distressed because he can't utilize the squeal--so much energy evaporating. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
  • The instant he heard my voice in the hall he uttered a squeal--almost a yell--of delight, and came down the two flights of stairs in a wriggling heap, his legs taking comparatively little part in the movement. —  My Doggie and I
 

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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

screech ·  squeak ·  yell ·  scream ·  whine ·  gasp ·  bellow ·  snarl ·  thud ·  giggle ·  whimper ·  chuckle

Used in the same contextWord Family

squeal:   squeals ·  squealed ·  squealing
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English squelen, probably of imitative origin.

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  1. from Middle English squelen, from Swedish dial. sqväla = Norwegian skvella, squall, squeal; a variant of squall, from Icelandic skvala, squall: see squall.
  2. from squeal, v.
  3. Origin obscure.
 

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