Squawk vs Squawky - What's the difference?
squawk | squawky |
A shrill noise, especially made by a voice or bird; a yell, scream, or call.
(aviation) A four-digit transponder code used by aircraft for identification or transmission of emergency signals.
(aviation) An issue or complaint related to aircraft maintenance.
The American night heron.
To make a squawking noise; to yell, scream, or call out shrilly.
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To speak out; to protest.
To report an infraction; to rat on or tattle; to disclose a secret.
(aviation) To set or transmit a four-digit transponder code.
(of a sound) Resembling a squawk; raw and grating
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=March 30, author=, title=Pop and Rock Listings, work=New York Times
, passage=It’s impossible to find the center of a Hella song, which explodes in multidirectional streaks of percussion and squawky guitar like a Jackson Pollock painting. }}
Making squawking sounds.
As a noun squawk
is a shrill noise, especially made by a voice or bird; a yell, scream, or call.As a verb squawk
is to make a squawking noise; to yell, scream, or call out shrilly.As an adjective squawky is
(of a sound) resembling a squawk; raw and grating.squawk
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- The hens woke up squawking with terror because they had all dreamed simultaneously of hearing a gun go off in the distance.
squawky
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Adjective
(er)citation
- a squawky chicken