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squeaking

noun C2
  1. A sound that squeaks.

Plural squeakings

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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.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 79 · B2
The squalling cat and the squeaking mouse,
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 10 · C1
Tabaqui, behind him, was squeaking: “My lord, my lord, it went in here!”
The Jungle Book, p. 5 · B2
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!”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 27 · B2

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