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squawking

nounverbcommon in dialogue

Squawk, the sound of a squawk.

noun

  1. 1

    Squawk, the sound of a squawk.

    She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of squawkpresent participle and gerund of squawk

Forms

plural
squawkings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).