The word squeaky is an adjective that means making or prone to making squeaking sounds, having a high-pitched, sharp, shrill quality. It describes something that squeaks. For example, squeaky door means door that squeaks when opened, squeaky shoes means shoes that squeak on floor, squeaky toy means toy that squeaks when squeezed, and squeaky voice means high-pitched voice that squeaks. Squeaky comes from noun squeak plus y suffix meaning having quality of. It can also be used figuratively in phrase squeaky clean, meaning extremely clean, spotless, morally pure, with no dirt or bad record, as in squeaky clean reputation or squeaky clean kitchen. The adverb form is squeakily, and comparative is squeakier, superlative squeakiest. Pronounced skwee-kee, two syllables. As adjective, it modifies nouns, as in the bed is squeaky. It is informal, descriptive, onomatopoeic, originating from sound imitation. So word squeaky means that tends to squeak, high-pitched and prone to squeaking, or in idiom, very clean. It is common in everyday English and children's language.
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