(v. i.) To utter a shrill, abrupt scream; to squeak harshly.
(n.) Act of squawking; a harsh squeak.
(n.) The American night heron. See under Night.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's also a big day for company results, both in the UK: David Buik (@truemagic68) UK results today - INMARSAT, WINCANTON, HALFORDS, C&W COMM, SUPERGROUP, REED ELSEVIER, WM MORRISON, INVENSYS, TATE & LYLE, RANDGOLD November 7, 2013 And across Europe: Squawk Box Europe (@SquawkBoxEurope) Big earnings day in Europe.
(2) While Jackie, 43, titivates her fleet of irritable lapdogs, David, 74, lumbers around like an elderly labrador in beige utility shorts, barking about third parties and negative equity into his mobile headset, one ear forever scanning the distance for the elusive squawk of an incremental loan agreement.
(3) "In some ways the amazing thing is that Edward Stourton lasted 10 years as a presenter of the Today programme," Phibbs squawked.
(4) I was a young woman when we started,” she squawked.
(5) As we stand by the edge of the Eaton Square Gardens, I can see a magpie or two hopping around, squawking at the hawk.
(6) On social media each day, a squadron of unionist sentinels scans Twitter and Facebook for evidence of “divisiveness” before squawking and shaking their virtual heads in despair at how political discourse has become infected by the poison of “divisiveness”.
(7) I was sitting in my bedroom and I saw the door open,” she says quietly as she sits on her verandah, chickens squawking in the yard.
(8) The "swazzle" – a device puppeteers use to create Punch's inimitable squawk – has been passed down through five generations of the Codman family.
(9) Six dogs, six cats, rabbits and white rats make up a menagerie of slobbering, purring affection, punctuated by squawks from the geese as they flee the Rottweiler.
(10) Among the prefects of political and economic commentary, the standard thing to do this morning is to rehearse Trump’s fury at free trade, to look at the voters that most of them have never bothered talking to – and to squawk that America has struck out in a new and radically different direction.
(11) Hey, it's not their money: 25% of income tax is paid by the top 1% and the trick for politicians is how best to pluck the bird without it squawking off to Zurich or New York.
(12) Is the "dead parrot" merely resting, asked Cash "and does he have a Baldrick-like plan to introduce the parliament act so we can get the parrot squawking again?"
(13) And for young people, that’s debt-free college; that is finding that job after you graduate,” Robby Mook, Clinton’s campaign director, said on CNBC’s Squawk Box a couple of weeks earlier.
(14) Indeed, zoo keepers only got confirmation that Mei Xiang was pregnant on Sunday night when a member of the team monitoring the 24-hour web camera trained on the bear these last two weeks heard the distinctive noisy squawk of a newborn cub.
(15) "Essen is dying to get in the middle rather than stuck out on the right," squawks Tony Nolan.
(16) Crucially the Highland wildcat is a member of the first of these subspecies while the domestic moggie that sleeps on your sofa and squawks for food in your kitchen is a member of the Middle Eastern subspecies.
(17) But in all the squawking over the past few days about what’s wrong in economics and with the economy, her brutally simple criticism is closer to the mark than are most of the pundit class.
(18) He had starred in 1927 in The Jazz Singer, the first full-length "all-talking," all-squawking picture.
(19) We have pet rabbits and a talking parrot who can squawk the Simpsons theme tune in one of our homes and the residents love caring for them.
(20) Big squawks when he thinks I've asked something ridiculous, stuttering gulps when he's laughing – sometimes nervously – at his own jokes.
Tattle
Definition:
(v. i.) To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning; to chat.
(v. i.) To tell tales; to communicate secrets; to be a talebearer; as, a tattling girl.
(n.) Idle talk or chat; trifling talk; prate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Others will point out that this is a case of pot calling kettle black as Wolff is himself a famous peddler of tittle-tattle – the aggregator website that he cofounded, Newser, even has a section called "Gossip".
(2) Barry Glendenning juggles a ball and transfer tittle-tattle as he prepares to sit in the Big D-Day Chair.
(3) Whenever prominent South African figures misbehave, Xhosa title-tattle centres on whether they have been circumcised.
(4) Salmond's spokesman said last night that the leaks were "diplomatic tittle tattle", but "vindicated" the Scottish government's position.
(5) We all enjoy a bit of gossip, it's hard to look away from kiss'n'tells or tittle-tattle whether it's about a doped-up soap star or Murdoch himself.
(6) "I'm not too disappointed that tittle tattle has stopped," he says.
(7) He said there was "too much trivialisation" and "tittle tattle" in the UK press.
(8) If Fleet Street had dutifully awaited the official release of the data, as the likes of Sir Stuart once said it should, the big story would have been the blush-worthy tittle-tattle of grocery claims instead of the incomparably more serious issue of the dodgy property deals.
(9) Cameron called it "tittle-tattle and rumour – utterly pathetic!".
(10) I think it would have been appropriate and right and respectful of people’s feelings to have done so.” There was further confusion after a Twitter account claiming to be the official Jeremy Corbyn campaign, with a verified blue tick, dismissed the row as “tittle-tattle”.
(11) His Eye sets its sights at genuine corruption or hypocrisy or mendacity, rather than offering tittle-tattle.
(12) In the public perception this ephemeral tittle-tattle replaced her timeless talent.
(13) On the other hand, there is also no doubt that there is no genuine public-interest justification for publishing tittle-tattle.
(14) White assiduously avoided clearing up the tittle-tattle, until eventually birth, marriage and divorce certificates were slightly churlishly unearthed by journalists.
(15) And while I didn't write tittle-tattle dreaming of Pulitzers, I never knew I'd fear a Booker Prize nomination instead.
(16) I’m not interested in all the tittle‑tattle ... we all have to remember that he is a truly gifted player.” United were eighth when Cantona strode in and were finding goals hard to come by.
(17) The sum total, he said, was "gossip, conjecture, unpleasant tittle-tattle and dollops of nostalgia".
(18) Leading the charge of this year’s batch of tittle-tattle is that the 3.5mm headphone jack is being ditched for the iPhone 7 .
(19) Regurgitating tittle-tattle is the Mill's forte, confused readers, not arithmetic.
(20) 7.03pm BST Some tittle for your tattle Probably bollix, but then so's most of the day's "news".