a. [f. SQUEAK sb. or v.] Characterized by squeaking sounds; tending to squeak.
1862. Miss Yonge, C’tess Kate, xii. (1880), 133. The loud squeaky key of the voice … showed that she had worked herself up into a state of excitement.
1869. Tozer, Highl. Turkey, I. 219. They sang in nasal and squeaky tones.
1885. W. H. Gibson, in Harper’s Mag., Dec., 78/1. What a scene of squeaky gossip in the moonlight!
1899. Conan Doyle, Duet, 238. An excellent piano…, but it is getting so squeaky in the upper notes.
b. Of the voice: = SQUEAKING ppl. a. 1 b.
1863. Kingsley, Water-bab., iii. 102. The tiniest, shrillest, squeakiest little voice you ever heard.
1881. Mrs. Molesworth, Adv. Herr Baby, 36. My little voice must have sounded very faint and squeaky from out of the trunk.
Hence Squeakyish a.
1832. Wilson, in Blackw. Mag., XXXII. 865. Performers with … punyish figures that must strut, and squeakyish voices that must crack.
