Squeal

Definition: Squeal

Squeal

Noun

1. A high-pitched howl.

Verb

1. Utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs.

2. Confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "squeal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references)

Synonyms: Squeal

Disclosure

Divulge, reveal, break; squeal, tattle, sing, rat, snitch; let into the secret; reveal the secrets of the prison house; tell; (inform); breathe, utter, blab, peach; let out, let fall, let drop, let slip, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag; betray; tell tales, come out of school; come out with; give vent, give utterance to; open the lips, blurt out, vent, whisper about; speak out; (make manifest); make public; unriddle; (find out) a; split.

Crosswords: Squeal

No, see - that's the thingI don't even like her, but she's a partner and I thought I could help my career by making her squeal. (Liar Liar; writing credit: Paul Guay; Stephen Mazur)

Big Squeal (1933)

Squeal (1998)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Everything but the Squeal (reference)

• Friction-Induced Vibration, Chatter, Squeal, and Chaos: Presented at the Winter Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Anahei (reference)

• Squeal (reference)

• The Squeal Man: The True Story of Matt Bonora, Suburban Homicide Detective (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "squeal": squeal on. Additional references.

Beginning with "squeal": squeal-turned.

Ending with "squeal": tyre-squeal.

Albanian

klithmë (bell, cry, note, scream, screech, shoot, squall, yowl), angullimë (squeak, wail, whimper, whine, yelp). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ولول (ululate, whine), ‏وشي, ‏ضغب صوت الأرنب, ‏صاح (bawl, call, call out, clear, crow, cry, holler, hoot, scream, shout, sing out, squall, squawk, vociferate), ‏صرخة طويلة حادة, ‏صر (chirr, creak, grate, insist, jar, persist, play up, press, rasp, screech, squeak), ‏خان (betray, double cross, false, hotel, inn, khan, play false, rat, renegade, sell out, split, two time), ‏إنتحب (blubber, wail, whine, yammer), ‏أطلق صرخة طويلة حادة, ‏شكا (beef, complain, fuss, gripe, grouch, grouse, grudge, grumble, pity, plain, repine, wail, whimper, yell), ‏شقشق. (various references)

Bulgarian 

квичене, квича, врясък, врещя, оплаквам се (bitch, complain, crab, growl, grumble, lament, moan, quarrel, report, tick), писък (cry, peep, scream, screech, shriek, squall, squeak, yawl, yowl), пискам (peep, squeak), доноснича (fink, grass, peach, snitch, squeak, stool, whistle). (various references)

Chinese 

尖聲啼�"� , 尖叫声 (shriek). (various references)

Czech

skřípání (creak, grating, grind, jarring, scroop), kvièet (screak, squeak), kvièení (squeak), kòuèet (whimper, whine), kòourat (snivel, whine), žalovat (prosecute, sneak, tell on). (various references)

Farsi 

فاش کردن (Babble, Betray, Disclose, Divulge, Giveaway, Manifest, Peach, Reveal, Tattle, Tell, Uncloak, Unfold, Utter), فریاد (Call, Calling, Cry, Gaff, Greet, Groan, Outcry, Shout, Shriek, Squawk, Whoop), نزاع (Affray, Battle, Contention, Discord, Dispute, Fray, Quarrel, Scrap, Scuffle, Spar, Strife, Tousle, War, Warfare, Wrangle), جیغ ممتمد, جیغ (Catcall, Scream, Screech, Shout, Shriek, Squawk), دعوا (Contest, Discord, Quarrel, Strife), داد (Greet, Justice, Outcry, Ruction, Shout). (various references)

Finnish

vingahdus (creak, squeak), kiljahdus (yell). (various references)

French

vendre la mèche, trahir, pousser un cri de douleur, pousser un cri aigu, pleurer, plaindre, piailler (squeak), moucharder, hurler (squall), crisser, cri perçant, couiner, bavarder. (various references)

German

singen (blab, buzz, buzzing, Carol, chant, chanting, give, grass, hum, humming, sing, sing away, singing, to sing (sang, vocalize), schreien (bawl, Bray, call, call out, clamor, clamour, crow, cry, cry out, cry up, crying, honk, hoot, howl, moan, scream, scream out, screech, shout, shouting, shriek, squall, to clamour, to scream, to screech, to squall, vociferate, wail, whoop, yell, yell out), schrei (Bray, call, crow, cry, honk, hoot, howl, scream, screech, shout, shriek, squall, yell), quietschen (creak, jar, screech, shriek, squeak), quieksen (squeak), quieken (squeak), quatschen (blather, chatter, gab, gabble, jaw, natter, piffle, yap), kreischen (jar, scream, screech, shriek, shrill, squawk, to screech, to shriek, to squawk, yell), jammern (bellyache, groan, lament, lamentation, moan, to lament, wail, wailing, whine, yammer), aufschrei (outcry, scream, shriek, yell, yelp). (various references)

Greek 

στρίγκλισμα, προδοσία (betrayal, double cross, lese majesty, sellout, treachery, treason), προδίδω (bespeak, betray, give away, sell out, shop), φωνάζω οξέωσ, οξεία κραυγή (screak, scream, screech, shriek, squeak). (various references)

Hebrew 

לילל (grizzle, howl, ululate, wail, whine), ליבב (sob, ululate, wail, whimper, yowl), לחרוק (creak, indent, jar, notch, squeak), לצרוח (bawl, scream, shout, shriek, squawk, yell), צריח�" (scream, shout, shriek, squall, yelling). (various references)

Hungarian

visítás (scream, shriek, skirl, squall), rikoltás (screech, squawk), rikít (glare, to glare, to scream, to stare). (various references)

Indonesian

mengguik, mengadu-adu (complain about, inform, sue, tell on), berdengking (scream, yelp), bercengking (yap). (various references)

Italian

strillo (bawl, cry, scream, screech, shout, shriek, squall), strillare (cry, scream, screech, shout, shriek, shrill, squall, squawk), stridere (clash, creak, grate, jangle, jar, screech, squeak, yell), cantare (crow, sing). (various references)

Manx

scraaghey (clod, pare, scraw, squawk), scraagh (screech, squawk). (various references)

Pig Latin

ealsquay

Portuguese

guincho (crab, donkey-engine, drawing-machine, hoist, scream, screech, shriek, skirl, squall, squeak, swift, tackle, winch), grito penetrante (screech, shriek), grito agudo (skirl, squall). (various references)

Romanian

slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), scânci (grizzle, mewl, whimper, whine), protesta vehement (raise a loud protest), nerezistent (dicky, yielding), guiţat (squeaking, squealing), guiţa (squeak), ţipãt ascuţit (squeak), ţipa (bawl, call, cry, honk, hoop, hoot, pipe, roar, scream, screech, shout, shriek, squall, yell). (various references)

Russian 

визг (scream, shriek, yelp), доносчик (checker, delator, denunciator, fink, informer, nark, noser, rat, sneak, sneaker, snitch, squeaker, squealer, tattletale, whistle-blower, whistler). (various references)

Scottish

sgiamh (a squeal, beauty, caterwaul, mew, See <A HREF="mf11.html#sgèimh">sgèimh</A>, shriek, yell), bìog (a chirp, little squeak, or squeal). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vrisnuti (screak, scream, screech, shriek, squawk), vriska (scream), ciknuti, cika. (various references)

Spanish

quejarse (address a complaint, beef, bellyache, bitch, carry on, complain, crab, gripe, groan, grouse, grumble, kick, moan, murmur, natter, niggle, quarrel, repine, sound off, take on, wail, whimper, yammer, yap), grito agudo (peep), denunciar (accuse, blow on, denounce, denuntiate, drive, inform, inform against, nark, shop), chillido (bawl, howl, jabber, scream, screech, shriek, squall, yell), chillar (bawl, Caterwaul, howl, jar, pipe, scream, screech, shriek, shrill, squall, squawk, squeak, yell), cantar (chant, cough, edge, jingle, let on, perform, sing, song, sound). (various references)

Swedish

skrika (call out, clamor, clamour, cry, cry out, jay, roar, scream, screaming, shout, shriek, shrill, squall, vociferate, whoop, yawp). (various references)

Turkish

sızlanmak (beef, belly, bemoan, complain, gripe, grizzle, groan, grunt, kick, whimper, whine), tiz ses çıkarmak, tiz ses (high pitched voice, squeak), ortağını ihbar etmek, ispiyonlamak (fink on, rat, sneak, snitch, snitch on, split on, spy on, tell on smb.), ispiyon (sneak, spy), ihbar (conveyance, denouncement, denunciation, informing, notice, warning), gıcırtı (clack, creak, jar, scratch, squeak), gıcırdamak (clack, creak, gnash, grate, grit, groan, jar, rustle, squeak), ciyaklama (squawk, squeak), cırlamak (screech, squall, squeak), cırlama (squeak), ötme (blast, crowing, hoop, singing, song, sounding, warble). (various references)

Ukrainian

вищати (wow, yell), вищання. (various references)

Vietnamese 

tiếng kêu ré lên. (various references)

Welsh

gwichian (creak, squeak, wheeze). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "squeal": squealed, squealer, squealers, squealing, squeals. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Squeal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: esquimau, queal, sceal, sequal, sequela, sgueal, skial, skoal, sqea, sqeal, sqeel, squai, squal, squale, squalk, squalm, squao, squap, sque, squeale, squeam, squear, squeaz, squeel, squel, squell, squeral, squil, squiral, squirl. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: equals.

-1 letter: equal, quale.

-2 letters: ales, lase, leas, lues, sale, saul, seal, slue.

-3 letters: ale, als, eau, els, las, lea, leu, qua, sae, sal, sau, sea, sel, sue, suq, use.

-4 letters: ae, al, as, el, es, la, us.

+1 letter: calques, claques, plaques, quezals, sequela, squeals.

+2 letters: claquers, coequals, equalise, lacquers, lacqueys, liquates, quarrels, queasily, quetzals, quezales, quinelas, sequelae, siliquae, squabble, squalene, squalled, squaller, squarely, squealed, squealer, squillae, tequilas, unequals.

+3 letters: appliques, claqueurs, equalised, equaliser, equalises, equalizes, nonequals, odalisque, quaaludes, qualifies, qualities, qualmiest, quantiles, quartiles, quetzales, quinellas, quinielas, requitals, squabbled, squabbler, squabbles, squalenes, squalider, squallers, squallier, squealers, squealing.