Squeaky means making a short, high-pitched, sharp, shrill sound, or tending to make such sound, and by extension means very clean. As an adjective, squeaky describes something that squeaks or squeaks easily, such as a squeaky door that makes eek when opened, squeaky shoes on polished floor, squeaky toy that squeaks when squeezed, squeaky bed springs, squeaky brakes, or squeaky voice that is high-pitched and thin. It conveys high frequency, somewhat annoying or attention-grabbing noise caused by friction or tight vocal cords. Second meaning comes from idiom squeaky clean, meaning morally spotless, immaculate, perfectly clean, innocent, with no dirt or bad record, as in squeaky clean kitchen, squeaky clean reputation, or squeaky clean background check. So squeaky primarily means noisy in high-pitched way, but also means extremely clean. The origin is from squeak plus y, meaning like squeak. Related forms are squeakier, squeakiest, squeakiness. Example, the squeaky wheel gets the grease means complainer gets attention. So squeaky describes sound quality and cleanliness.
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