screaky, a.
(ˈskriːkɪ)
Also screeky, skreaky, skreeky, skrieky.
[f. screak n. or v. + -y.]
Apt to screak.
| 1884 ‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn xxvii. 272 A melodeum—a sick one..pretty skreeky and colicky. 1892 Dialect Notes (U.S.) v. 231 (Kentucky Words) Skrieky, creaky. 1893 R. Bridges Humours of Court iii. ii. 2473 I'll shut him in the screeky cupboard. 1909 Dialect Notes III. 404 ‘My shoes are skreaky.’ ‘I hate skreaky doors.’ a 1961 in Webster, Bats..making their screaky sounds. |