squawker

Other forms of squawker

plural

squawkers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about squawker

What does squawker mean?

squawker means "a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in squawker?

squawker has 2 syllables: squaw-ker. The stress falls on "squaw".

What is another word for squawker?

Close synonyms include whiner, complainer, moaner, sniveller, crybaby. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is squawker a common word?

squawker is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.