Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which screeches; a screamer.
- noun Specifically, in ornithology:
- noun The swift, Cypselus apus. Also screamer, squealer.
- noun plural The Strepitores.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Agent noun ofscreech ; one who screeches. - noun dated A bird of the former category Picariae, distinguished from the
songbirds .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice
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Examples
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The more exposure to the MooseRack screecher the more people who are turned off by her empty headed rhetoric.
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This was a career-aborting farce from a no-talent screecher.
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This isn't to say that the back-room bigot is any better than the street-corner screecher, but in so-called “polite” society, the latter is an embarrassment simply not worth being associated with.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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This isn't to say that the back-room bigot is any better than the street-corner screecher, but in so-called “polite” society, the latter is an embarrassment simply not worth being associated with.
Sacked! 2009
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They were excellent hosts; and it was particularly great seeing my great-nephew, now two years old and quite possibly the loudest screecher on the face of the planet.
Done Vacating eddvick 2009
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"A P.A. announcer is not a cheerleader, or a circus barker, or a hometown screecher," the epitome of the old-school style once said.
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She was an effective screecher, because of her fright-wig; they quickly agreed and huddled down into the gully, their gross bodies filling it from side to side.
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While Arturo's a great screecher, no one's better than the late, great Maynard Ferguson whom I grew up listening to.
(Almost) All Trumpets JDsg 2007
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When she was in her 20s, she would apparently become an “incoherent screecher” whenever boyfriends broke up with her, which seems to have been often.
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When she was in her 20s, she would apparently become an “incoherent screecher” whenever boyfriends broke up with her, which seems to have been often.
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