squawker (skwaker)

[ 5879 2. To break silence or secrecy; speak speak out; ou turn informer; "squeal"; peach. [Slang.] If he be obstinate, put a civil question to him upon the rack, and he squeaks, I warrant him. Dryden, Don Sebastian, iv. 3. "She was at the Kaim of Dern cleugh, at Vanbeest Brown's last wake, as they call it.". "That's another breaker ahead, Captain! Will she not squeak, think ye?" Scott, Guy Manner ing, xxxiv. 3. To shirk an obligation, as the payment of a debt. [Slang.] II. trans. To utter with a squeak, or in a squeaking tone. And that, for any thing in Nature, Pigs might squeak Love-Odes, Dogs bark Satyr. Prior, To Fleet wood Shepherd.