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▪ I. screeching, vbl. n.|ˈskriːtʃɪŋ|
[f. screech v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. screech; shrill crying, howling.
1616Breton Good & Badde, Vnquiet Woman Wks. (Grosart) II. 12/2 Her voice is the skrieching of an owle. 1673Hickeringill Gregory F. Greybeard 307 This rat⁓catcher owl..with her howtings and scrietching she spoils the musick. 1753J. Collier Art Torment. Concl. (1811) 221 How have I seen a whole company made uneasy from the screeching of a cork between some person's fingers! 1777W. Dalrymple Trav. Sp. & Port. cxxix, They make a most disagreeable screetching. 1828Scott F.M. Perth vii, ‘I prithee, peace’, said Craigdallie, who was obviously tired of the tuneless screeching of the worthy deacon. 1871O. W. Holmes Smiling Listener 54 More banging, more screeching of fiddle and drum. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 4 Dec. 15/2 A lot of this stuff is going to come to a screeching halt quickly, and we're not going to do the screeching.
▪ II. screeching, ppl. a.|ˈskriːtʃɪŋ|
[f. screech v. + -ing2.]
That screeches. Hence ˈscreechingly adv.
1816Scott Let. in Lockhart (1839) V. 141 My old peacock, who chooses to..sit below my bedroom window to keep me awake with his screeching lamentation. 1854N. Brit. Rev. XXI. 217 Old ones cry out screechingly. 1886W. J. Tucker E. Europe 209 The screeching appeals which greeted the discovery of our misdemeanour. |