[syn: whine, squeak, screech, creak, screak, skreak]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Squeak \Squeak\ (skw[=e]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Squeaked
(skw[=e]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Squeaking.] [Probably of
imitative origin; cf. Sw. sqv[aum]ka to croak, Icel. skvakka
to give a sound as of water shaken in a bottle.]
1. To utter a sharp, shrill cry, usually of short duration;
to cry with an acute tone, as an animal; or, to make a
sharp, disagreeable noise, as a pipe or quill, a wagon
wheel, a door; to creak.
[1913 Webster]
Who can endure to hear one of the rough old Romans
squeaking through the mouth of an eunuch? --Addison.
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Zoilus calls the companions of Ulysses the
"squeaking pigs" of Homer. --Pope.
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2. To break silence or secrecy for fear of pain or
punishment; to speak; to confess. [Colloq.]
Syn: squeal.
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If he be obstinate, put a civil question to him
upon the rack, and he squeaks, I warrant him.
--Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Squeak \Squeak\, n.
A sharp, shrill, disagreeable sound suddenly uttered, either
of the human voice or of any animal or instrument, such as is
made by carriage wheels when dry, by the soles of leather
shoes, or by a pipe or reed.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
squeak
n 1: a short high-pitched noise; "the squeak of shoes on powdery
snow"
2: something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin [syn:
close call, close shave, squeak, squeaker, narrow
escape]
v 1: make a high-pitched, screeching noise; "The door creaked
when I opened it slowly"; "My car engine makes a whining
noise" [syn: whine, squeak, screech, creak,
screak, skreak]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "squeak":
bark, bawl, bay, bell, bellow, blare, blat, blate, bleat, bray,
break, call, caterwaul, change, creak, cry, give tongue,
give voice, grate, howl, keen, look-in, low, meow, mew, mewl,
miaow, moo, nark, neigh, nicker, occasion, opening, peach, pimp,
pipe, pule, rat, roar, screak, scream, screech, shot, show, shriek,
shrill, sing, skirl, skreigh, snitch, squall, squawk, squeal,
stool, time, troat, ululate, ululation, wail, whicker, whine,
whinny, whistle, wrawl, yammer, yap, yawl, yawp, yelp, yip, yowl
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
Squeak
1.
["Squeak: A Language for Communicating with Mice", L. Cardelli
et al, Comp Graphics 19(3):199-204, July 1985].
See Newsqueak.
2. A Smalltalk implementation and a media authoring tool
by members of the original Xerox PARC team which created
Smalltalk (Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, et al). Squeak is an
open-source implementation, with a highly portable virtual
machine implemented in a subset of Smalltalk (translated into
C and compiled by a C compiler of the target platform).
Squeak Home (http://squeak.org/).
SqueakCentral (http://squeakland.org/).
(2002-11-03)