screaming
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Verb
screaming
- present participle of scream
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:scream.
Adjective
screaming (comparative more screaming, superlative most screaming)
- Loud, sharp, and piercing to the ear.
- Obvious; distinct.
- First-rate; splendid.
- 1971, Library Journal, volume 96, page 1569:
- All undergraduate libraries have been a screaming success as study halls. The Undergraduate Library of the University of Michigan may be the smash hit of all time; the attendance in that library during 1968-69 was 1,899,000.
- Hilariously funny; calculated to make people roar with laughter.
- a screaming farce
- (gay slang) Effeminate, flamboyant or otherwise obviously gay.
- Did you see that guy at the bar? Screaming!
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Noun
screaming (plural screamings)
- A scream.
- 1875, John Lothrop Motley, The Life and Death of John of Barneveld Advocate of Holland:
- The hissings and screamings of the vulgar against him as he moved forward on his stedfast course he heeded less than those of geese on a common.