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screamy

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Etymology

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From scream +‎ -y.

Adjective

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screamy (comparative screamier, superlative screamiest)

  1. Loud and high-pitched; sounding like a scream.
    • 2008 March 21, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times[1]:
      Health, a quartet from Los Angeles, is another story, playing manic, stop-start spasms of percussion and screamy noise, with three of its members throwing their bodies around as if in an untamed dance.
  2. (of a person) Prone to screaming.

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