[f. SQUALL v.] That squalls or screams.
Chiefly said of children, with contemptuous force.
1712. Steele, Spect., No. 479, ¶ 2. The Noise of those damned Nurses and squawling Brats.
1822–7. Good, Study Med. (1829), I. 563. Squeaking voice. The voice shrill and squalling.
1828. Scott, F. M. Perth, xxii. I am glad I saved the squalling child’s life.
1852. Thackeray, Esmond, III. v. 140. Send that squalling little brat about his business.
