squeaking
noun C2- A sound that squeaks.
Plural squeakings
From the library
Just as they were beginning to eat, someone opened the door, and they both ran off squeaking, as fast as they could, to a hole so narrow that two could only find room in it by squeezing.
The squalling cat and the squeaking mouse,
Tabaqui, behind him, was squeaking: “My lord, my lord, it went in here!”
Last came a little feeble, squeaking voice, (“That’s Bill,” thought Alice,) “Well, I hardly know—No more, thank ye; I’m better now—but I’m a deal too flustered to tell you—all I know is, something comes at me like a Jack-in-the-box, and up I goes like a sky-rocket!”
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