Also skwawk. [f. next.]
1. A loud grating call or cry; a hoarse squall.
1850. R. S. Hawker, in C. E. Byles, Life & Lett. (1905), xiii. 212. There is … the Squawk of the demon on every platform.
1863. Reade, Hard Cash, II. 337. At sight of this lowering figure Hannah uttered a squawk, and fled with cheeks red as fire.
1889. Clark Russell, Marooned (1890), 283. The harsh squawk of the macaw or some such fowl came like the edge of a saw out of the … forest.
2. U.S. (See quot.)
1872. Coues, N. Amer. Birds, 269. Nyctiardea, Night Heron. Qua-bird. Squawk.
