screechy

[ skree-chee ]

adjective

, screech·ier, screech·i·est.

1. like or suggesting screeching. screeching.
2. producing screeches:

   a screechy door.

ˈscreechy

/ ˈskriːtʃɪ /

adjective

1. loud and shrill

Word History and Origins

Origin of screechy¹

First recorded in 1820–30; screech + -y ¹

Example Sentences

It was a time of screechy dial-up internet and flip phones, when investors were throwing funds at any start-up with “dot com” in its name.

From Washington Post

Its topics are the predictable pop-culture bellwethers of the day, reheated into screechy mush.

From The Daily Beast

Once again, Pharoah hammers down every screechy, scratchy vocal tic while doing a Rock-sian riff on Romeo and Juliet.

From The Daily Beast

Flo was not just mediocre: she was catastrophically tragic, tone-deaf, screechy and, as Randy Jackson would say, “pitchy, dawg!”

From The Daily Beast

I begged, and told him I was only Huck; but he laughed such a screechy laugh, and roared and cussed, and kept on chasing me up.

From Project Gutenberg

Her voice is so high and screechy, it cuts your ears; she does not want for wit, and expresses herself well.

From Project Gutenberg

The priests stopped before us and their leader began a long harangue in a screechy voice which set my nerves on edge.

From Project Gutenberg

Now a woman's voice rose from amid this gaping and chattering crowd,—the sharp and screechy voice of an angry woman.

From Project Gutenberg

What she spoke of was a thing that turned, and made a screechy noise.

From Project Gutenberg