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From 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.
skrike (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.
- 1937, 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.
- 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit:
From Middle English skrike, scryke (also skryche, schryke, shryke). Cognate with Old Frisian skrichte, Middle Low German schrichte.
skrike (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.
- shrike
- 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, University of Illinois Press.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “scric”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- Kikers, krieks, skriek
skrike (imperative skrik, present tense skriker, passive skrikes, simple past skrek or skreik, past participle skreket, present participle skrikende)
skrike
- alternative form of skrika
skrike
- past participle of skrika
skrike f (definite singular skrika, indefinite plural skriker, definite plural skrikene)
- alternative form of skrikje (“jay”)