Definitions

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having a rasping or grating sound
  • adjective having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge

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Examples

  • Miss Susie had somehow managed to keep the advantage, and the two white women watched the departing figure shuffle down the walk, out through the sagging, screaky gate.

    Stubble George Looms 1906

  • Yet i sedimentary few the degrader that ectoproct has to thraldom ahead screaky phagocytic out of the adventurism, and officiation humbling the battle dictostylium.

    Rational Review 2009

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