skrike
English
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /skɹaɪk/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Etymology 1
editFrom Middle English skriken, a borrowing from Old Norse skríkja (“to scream”) (compare Old English sċrīċ, sċrēċ > English shriek/screech), literally "bird with a shrill call," referring to a thrush, possibly imitative of its call. Attested from c 1573.
Verb
editskrike (third-person singular simple present skrikes, present participle skriking, simple past and past participle skriked)
- (British, regional) To cry, sob, cry out or yell; to scream. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- 1973, Alan Garner, Red Shift:
- It's not as if you're skriking brats.
- 2020, J.R.R Tolkien, The Hobbit:
- The yells and yammering, croaking, jibbering and jabbering; howls, growls and curses; shrieking and skriking, that followed were beyond description.
Etymology 2
editFrom Middle English skrike, scryke (also skryche, schryke, shryke). Cognate with Old Frisian skrichte, Middle Low German schrichte.
Noun
editskrike (plural skrikes)
- (UK, regional) A cry or scream.
- c 1573, attested by J. Raine
- at what tyme the said Herrison wyfe gave a skrike.
- 1824, Allan's Tynside Songs, page 182:
- Aw gav a skrike.
- c 1573, attested by J. Raine
- (UK, dialect) The mistle thrush.
See also
editReferences
edit- A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press.
- A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, J. R. Clark Hall, 1984, University of Toronto Press.
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology: Volume 29, 1930, Univeristy of Illinois Press.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “scric”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams
editNorwegian Bokmål
editEtymology
editVerb
editskrike (imperative skrik, present tense skriker, passive skrikes, simple past skrek or skreik, past participle skreket, present participle skrikende)
Related terms
edit- skrik (noun)
References
edit- “skrike” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editVerb
editskrike
- Alternative form of skrika
Participle
editskrike
- past participle of skrika
Noun
editskrike f (definite singular skrika, indefinite plural skriker, definite plural skrikene)
- alternative form of skrikje (“jay”)
References
edit- “skrike” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- “skrika”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
- “skrike”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
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