Noun: squawk
| Singular | squawk |
| Plural | squawks |
Sample Sentences
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That was the last roundup for McCutcheon’s Cresswell; it never moved from that field again. Not that there was any squawk from the landlord; the two of them owned it, of course. [1983, Stephen King, Uncle Otto's Truck:]
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We think instructors should stress the importance of writeups on all maintenance squawks after the completion of each flight. More important, something should be done by the aircraft operator to correct such squawks. [1969, American Aviation, volume 32:]
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The function-hiding code above, for instance, goes through a different (but widely used) compiler with nary a squawk. [2012, Scott Meyers, Effective C++ Digital Collection: 140 Ways to Improve Your Programming:]
Nouns inflected like squawk
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
First attested in 1821. Unknown, but probably of imitative origin (compare dialectal Italian squacco (“small-crested heron”) and English quack). See: Italian Nouns '
squacco', English Nouns '
quack'.