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Squeak

noun
1.
A short high-pitched noise.
2.
Something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin.  Synonyms: close call, close shave, narrow escape, squeaker.
verb
(past & past part. squeaked; pres. part. squeaking)
1.
Make a high-pitched, screeching noise.  Synonyms: creak, screak, screech, skreak, whine.  "My car engine makes a whining noise"



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"Squeak" Quotes from Famous Books



... nurse. You know I should have been willing to be that, but I thought I could be something more. But it's no use talking." She added, after an interval, in which her mother rocked to and fro with a gentle motion that searched the joints of her chair, and brought out its most plaintive squeak in pathetic iteration, and watched Grace, as she sat looking seaward through the open window, "I think it's rather hard, mother, that you should be always talking as if I wished to take my calling mannishly. All that I intend is not to take it womanishly; but as for not being a woman ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... them, emitted a sound that the Japanese believe to resemble the song of Philomela. To me it brought no such memory, and the fact that this effect, common in Japan, is technically known as "a nightingale squeak," perhaps supports my insensitiveness. ...
— Roving East and Roving West • E.V. Lucas

... rat had lingered in the house, To lure the thought into a social channel! But not a rat remain'd, or tiny mouse, To squeak ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood

... an armchair, which was always kept in the vestibule thereafter, ready for that difficult transportation. Madame Jansoulet could not walk upstairs, for it made her dizzy; she would not have an elevator because her weight made it squeak; besides, she never walked. An enormous creature, so bloated that it was impossible to assign her an age, but somewhere between twenty-five and forty, with rather a pretty face, but features all deformed by ...
— The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) • Alphonse Daudet

... Barley Broth Cream of Barley Water Batter Pudding Beef Tea Substitute Beet Beverages Blancmange Bombay Pudding Bread, Cold Water Egg Gem Hot Water Raisin Shortened Twice Bated Bread and Fruit Pudding Broad Beans Broccoli Biscuits Browning for Gravies and Sauces Brussels Sprouts Bubble and Squeak Buttered Eggs Rice and Peas Cabbage Cake Mixture Cherry Cocoanut Corn, Wine and Oil Cakes Lemon Cake, Madeira Manhu Seed Short Sponge Sultana Sussex (without eggs) Cakes, Small Carrot Juice (Raw) Casserole Cookery Cauliflower ...
— The Healthy Life Cook Book, 2d ed. • Florence Daniel


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