Definition of Squawking

1. Noun. squawk, the sound of a squawk ¹

2. Verb. (present participle of squawk) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Squawking

1. squawk [v] - See also: squawk

Lexicographical Neighbors of Squawking

squawberries
squawberry
squawbush
squawbushes
squawfish
squawfishes
squawk
squawk box
squawked
squawker
squawkers
squawkier
squawkiest
squawkily
squawkiness
squawking (current term)
squawkingly
squawks
squawky
squawl
squawled
squawlike
squawling
squawls
squawman
squawmen
squawroot
squawroots
squaws
squawweed

Literary usage of Squawking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The girl's own book by Lydia Maria Francis Child (1856)
"The next is, " Three squawking wild geese, two ducks, and a good fat hen." After this has gone round as before, the leader says, " Four plump partridges, ..."

2. Birds of North America by Jim Roetzel (2007)
"... squawking hark, blue- gray plumage, and yellow crown, this heron beckons a mate. It breeds along wooded wetlands from Connecticut to the ..."

3. The American Girl's Book, Enlarged: Including the American Girl's Book, by by Eliza Leslie (1857)
"The next is, " Three squawking wild geese, two ducks and a good fat hen." After this has gone round as before, the leader says, " Four plump partridges, ..."

4. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1857)
"Speckle-feather, squawking fool ? ' Is your squawking sass ? or arc you 'feard of шс, say ! How do you s'poee a feller can read or rite, ..."

5. A Manual of the Short Story Art by Glenn Clark (1922)
"Confusing: He turned and fled from the crowd, squalling and squawking. (He or the crowd were squalling and squawking?) Clear: Squalling and squawking, ..."

6. A Manual of the Short Story Art by Glenn Clark (1922)
"(He or the crowd were squalling and squawking?) Clear: Squalling and squawking, he fled from the crowd. Confusing: He hardly spoke to me hurrying down town. ..."

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