squeak (skwek)

[ With many a deadly grunt and doleful squeak . Dryden , Cock and Fox, 1. 732. There chanced to be a coquette in the consort,... with a great many skittish notes [and] affected squeaks . Add is on , Tatler, No. 157. A squeak, or a narrow squeak, an escape by the merest chance. [Colloq. or slang.]-Bubble and squeak. See bubble1 .