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Squeal   /skwil/   Listen
noun
Squeal  n.  A shrill, sharp, somewhat prolonged cry.


verb
Squeal  v. i.  (past & past part. squealed; pres. part. squealing)  
1.
To cry with a sharp, shrill, prolonged sound, as certain animals do, indicating want, displeasure, or pain.
2.
To turn informer; to betray a secret. (Slang)





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"Squeal" Quotes from Famous Books



... hearing shrill sounds; it is perfectly remarkable what a faculty they have in this way. Cats, of course, have to deal in the dark with mice, and to find them out by their squealing. Many people cannot hear the shrill squeal of a mouse. Some time ago, singing mice were exhibited in London, and of the people who went to hear them, some could hear nothing, whilst others could hear a little, and others again could hear much. Cats are differentiated by natural selection until ...
— Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development • Francis Galton
... had been watching him, for, turning with a swift motion, he plunged into the shrubs and evergreens behind him. That the thing was as frightened as a rabbit, there can be no doubt; the single little cry it gave forth was not a scream. You would have called it a squeal! In a jiffy I was after him, tearing through the branches among which, with a sinuous twisting of his body, he had just slid; a moment later I reached the open lawn again. The ...
— The Blue Wall - A Story of Strangeness and Struggle • Richard Washburn Child
... missionary of a Means who was working in a mission down on the East Side after coming back who put him in with that janitor woman. You both done all the dirt you could to his dad by stealing all he had, and now because you've been scared that he'd squeal on you, the both of you are trying to steal his right to live as a man. I suppose if you'd have known that he was as ignorant as a babe about all this, you'd done nothing against him. But Providence come in by way of your own home. Harold ...
— Captain Pott's Minister • Francis L. Cooper
... followed by a third, and Yasmini smothered a squeal of excitement, for she saw that Ranjoor Singh's eyes were ablaze at last and that he had sat bolt upright without knowing it. The third man was dressed like the other two in white duck, but he wore his clothes not as they did. He was tall and straight. One could easily ...
— Winds of the World • Talbot Mundy
... cu'rus kind o' child, Louisa was. She sort o' 'spicioned things wasn't right, but you think that child ever let a squeal out o' her? Not her! Lemme tell you-all somethin', jest to show what kind o' a ...
— Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man • Marie Conway Oemler


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