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Definition of Squawker
1. Noun. A person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining.
Generic synonyms: Disagreeable Person, Unpleasant Person
Specialized synonyms: Kvetch
Derivative terms: Bellyache, Complain, Grumble, Grumble, Moan, Snivel, Snivel, Snivel, Squawk, Squawk, Whine, Whine
2. Noun. The loudspeaker on an intercom or public address system.
Group relationships: Intercom, Intercommunication System
Generic synonyms: Loudspeaker, Loudspeaker System, Speaker, Speaker System, Speaker Unit
Definition of Squawker
1. Noun. a person who, or thing that squawks ¹
2. Noun. a loudspeaker used for frequencies intermediate between those of a woofer and a tweeter ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Squawker
1. one that squawks [n -S] - See also: squawks
Lexicographical Neighbors of Squawker
Literary usage of Squawker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Wild-fowl Shooting: Describing the Haunts, Habits, and Methods of by Joseph W. Long (1874)
"I like " calling by mouth" much better than with a " squawker," especially if
the ducks ... I will try and explain to you, though, how to make a squawker, ..."
2. Common School Education: Devoted to the Art of Instruction (1889)
"Bought a squawker yesterday; been so good I thought I must have a little fun.
... By the time he was in the basement, the squawker went off again, ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1901)
""Visualized a boy blowing a ' squawker,' quite amused."2 2. There is always an
interval without any auditory filling immediately after N. Its length is ..."
4. Outing (1893)
"Well, if the cyclist went whooping like a Comanche, and ringing his bell or
working his squawker to the highest pitch of his noise-producing ..."
5. The Tim Bunker Papers by William Clift (1868)
"And then as to that boy, he'won't be big enough under a year to blow a squash
leaf squawker, to say nothing of trumpets. A silver trumpet! ..."
6. The Birds of Ohio: A Complete Scientific and Popular Description of the 320 by William Leon Dawson, Lynds Jones (1902)
"... after which she suddenly jabbed her bill down the neck of the nearest squawker
and dispensed sweet nourishment from her secret store. ..."
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