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Definition: Screechy |
ScreechyAdjective1. Having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "screechy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1878. (references) |
Synonyms: ScreechySynonyms: screaky (adj), squeaking (adj), squeaky (adj), squealing (adj). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Scratchy violins, screechy piccolos, nauseating trumpets, et cetera, et cetera? (The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.; writing credit: Dr. Seuss;) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | She raised the screechy shade of the lantern and lighted the wick. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Screechy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Screechy" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "screechy": screaky screechy squeaking squeaky squealing. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "screechy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ulëritës (howler, howling, roarer, roaring, screaming), klithës. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إستغاثة (appeal, evocation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pronikavý (biting, grating, high pitched, incisive, keen, penetrable, penetrating, pervasive, piercing, pungent, shrill, strident, sweeping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | rauque. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kreischende. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τραχύσ (abrasive, abrupt, coarse, grating, gritty, gruff, harsh, inclinable, ragged, raucous, rough, rude, rugged, scabrous, scraggly, seamy, throaty, tough), οξύσ (acid, acute, crucial, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated, keen, pang, penetrating, piercing, piked, piping, pointed, pungent, sharp, shrill, smart, trenchant, twang). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | visító hang. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eechyscray estridente (clangorous, piping, piquancy, shrill, strident), esganiçado (pipy, shrill, thready). (various references) резкий (abrupt, acrid, acute, bitter, bluffy, brusque, crusty, curt, harsh, incisive, jarring, keen, loud, pipy, rough, rude, sharp, short, shrewd, strident, tart). (various references) kreštav (blatant, screamy, shrill, squeaky). (various references) thất thanh, thét lên (screaming), rít lên. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Screechy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: crechy, Scraghey, screench. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-h-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: creches, screech, secrecy. | |
-2 letters: cheers, cheery, cheesy, creche, creesh, heresy, recces, reechy, yecchs. | |
-3 letters: ceres, cheer, eches, eyers, eyres, heres, recce, scree, sheer, shyer, sycee, yecch, yechs. | |
-4 letters: cees, cere, eche, eery, eyer, eyes, eyre, here, hers, recs, rees, resh, ryes, scry, seer, sere, syce, yech. | |
-5 letters: cee, cry, ere, ers, eye, her, hes, hey, rec, ree, res, rye, sec, see, ser, she, shy, yeh, yes. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-h-r-s-y" | |
+4 letters: heterocycles, sclerenchyma. | |
+5 letters: heterocyclics, oystercatcher, sclerenchymas. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 72 65 65 63 68 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. .-. . . -.-. .... -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01110010 01100101 01100101 01100011 01101000 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c r e e c h y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0072 0065 0065 0063 0068 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5369847171697491 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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