screechy

[ skree-chee ]

/ ˈskri tʃi /

adjective, screech·ier, screech·i·est.

like or suggesting screeching.

producing screeches: a screechy door.

Nearby words

screamo, scree, screech, screech owl, screeching, screechy, screed, screen, screen actors guild, screen dump, screen grid

Origin of screechy

First recorded in 1820–30; screech + -y¹

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Examples from the Web for screechy

Its topics are the predictable pop-culture bellwethers of the day, reheated into screechy mush.
Don’t Remember Barbara Walters for ‘The View’|Tim Teeman|April 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Once again, Pharoah hammers down every screechy, scratchy vocal tic while doing a Rock-sian riff on Romeo and Juliet.
Barack Obama and Jay Pharoah’s 7 Best Celebrity Impressions (VIDEO)|Kevin Fallon|September 14, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Flo was not just mediocre: she was catastrophically tragic, tone-deaf, screechy and, as Randy Jackson would say, “pitchy, dawg!”
Dead Cool: Florence Foster Jenkins|Simon Doonan|July 10, 2010|DAILY BEAST
He knew that she was taking violin lessons: he had often heard her screechy fiddling on the stairs and out in the hall.
The Goose Man|Jacob Wassermann

Again he laughed in that high-pitched, screechy key of ineffable disdain.
An Oregon Girl|Alfred Ernest Rice
Her voice is so high and screechy, it cuts your ears; she does not want for wit, and expresses herself well.
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XIII. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle
Bending her head nearer, Flea coaxed, "What good land, Screechy dear?"
From the Valley of the Missing|Grace Miller White
What she spoke of was a thing that turned, and made a screechy noise.
Walter Pieterse|Multatuli

British Dictionary definitions for screechy

screechy

/ (ˈskriːtʃɪ) /

adjective -ier or -iest

loud and shrill

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