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Definition of Screaky
1. Adjective. Having a rasping or grating sound. "Creaky stairs"
2. Adjective. Having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge.
Similar to: High, High-pitched
Derivative terms: Screech, Screech, Squeak
Definition of Screaky
1. screechy [adj] - See also: screechy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Screaky
Literary usage of Screaky
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... grinding, screaky, squeaky, raspy, rasping. cream, n. 1. head dm risen on
milk; Bril.), crème (French)l scum (rare); spec, froth. a. ..."
2. Pictures of Travel by Heinrich Heine, Charles Godfrey Leland, Charles Harvey Genung (1898)
"... for the last ten years, have been joining in that song of " Byronic morbidness,"
with all manner of whistling and screaky piping, and which had its echo ..."
3. The Salon: Letters on Art, Music, Popular Life and Politics in Paris by Heinrich Heine (1891)
"... joining in that song of " Byronic morbidness," 1 with all manner of whistling
and screaky piping, and which had its echo in the skull of poor Gumpel ? ..."
4. The Musical World (1866)
"... Charters. to be a rip and tare effort to gain effect which when produced sounds
thin and screaky. AM HENRI VIEUXTEMPS. CHER VIRTUOSE. ..."
5. Pictures of Travel by Heinrich Heine, Charles Godfrey Leland, Charles Harvey Genung (1898)
"... for the last ten years, have been joining in that song of " Byronic morbidness,"
with all manner of whistling and screaky piping, and which had its echo ..."
6. Heinrich Heine's Pictures of Travel by Heinrich Heine, Charles Godfrey Leland (1863)
"... joining in that song of "By- ronic morbidness," with all manner of whistling
and screaky piping, and which had its echo in the skull of poor GUMPEL? ..."
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