screechy

English

Etymology

From screech +‎ -y.

Adjective

screechy (comparative screechier, superlative screechiest)

1. Resembling a screech.

   a screechy sound

   • 1952 December, R. S. McNaught, “The Voice of the Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 839:

     Where these Atlantics fell from acoustic grace, however, was in their feeble screechy little whistle, so different from the N.B.R. mellow standard pattern.

2. Given to screeching.

   She has a screechy voice that really grates on my nerves, like a dentist's drill.