squawker

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something that squawks.
  2. A person who complains or protests noisily.
    — The bosses grow weary of the scammers and squawkers and conclude that they're all a big nuisance.
  3. An informant; a stool pigeon. slang
  4. A loudspeaker used for frequencies intermediate between those of a woofer and a tweeter.
  5. The radio used in police vehicles to keep in contact with headquarters. slang

词形变化

squawkers plural

词源

Etymology tree
English squawk
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English squawker
From squawk + -er.
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