screech·y

[skree-chee]
adjective, screech·ier, screech·i·est.
1.
like or suggesting screeching.
2.
producing screeches: a screechy door.

Origin:
1820–30; screech + -y1

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screechy (ˈskriːtʃɪ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
adj , -ier, -iest
loud and shrill

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Screechy is always a great word to know.
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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
Example sentences
It's the screechy voice, the unimaginative plots and the flat characters that grate on my nerves.
Though the role earned her worldwide fame, it also typecast her as screechy-voiced, hysterical domestics.
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