Meaning of screel | Babel Free

Definitions

A discordant high-pitched noise.

Examples

“The screams began as the usual long screel.”

“Someone had got hold of a bullhorn and was bellowing out instructions that, thanks to screels of feedback, were utterly incomprehensible.”

“As for the Minimoog itself, it proved capable of creating whole new registers of possibility: a viscid bass that stirs the entrails, a tonal warmth that solicits well-being, a cringing static that conjures animal fear, a piercing screel that commands almost spiritual submission.”

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