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Squawk   /skwɔk/   Listen
noun
Squawk  n.  
1.
Act of squawking; a harsh squeak.
2.
(Zool.) The American night heron. See under Night.
Squawk duck (Zool.), the bimaculate duck (Anas glocitans). It has patches of reddish brown behind, and in front of, each eye. (Prov. Eng.)


verb
Squawk  v. i.  (past & past part. squawked; pres. part. squawking)  To utter a shrill, abrupt scream; to squeak harshly.
Squawking thrush (Zool.), the missel turush; so called from its note when alarmed. (Prov. Eng.)





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"Squawk" Quotes from Famous Books



... upward, and there was a squawk that seemed to be choked off, as Fred's fingers closed around the body and ...
— Fred Fenton on the Crew - or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School • Allen Chapman
... he paused, and, breathless and panting, listened. He imagined some strange voice would come from the dead throat and squawk after him ...
— The Red Badge of Courage - An Episode of the American Civil War • Stephen Crane
... Tarascon lies behind all this, and Tarascon is down in the black books of the world of fur and feather. The very birds of passage have ticked it off on their guide-books, and when the wild ducks, coming down towards the Camargue in long triangles, spy the town steeples from afar, the outermost flyers squawk out loudly: ...
— Tartarin of Tarascon • Alphonse Daudet
... voice; and Dame Nanette, feeling herself supported, recommenced with all her strength to sound her shrilly squawk. ...
— Twenty Years After • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... scrub beside him abruptly changed the trend of his thought. He was startled. The commotion went on. Then with a rush and whirr of wings, and a hoarse-throated squawk, a large bird flew up, clutching the ruffled body of a lesser one in its fierce claws, its great flapping wings brushing his sleeve as ...
— The Law-Breakers • Ridgwell Cullum


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