skreigh

Scots

Alternative forms

skraigh, skreegh, skriech, skriegh

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /skriç/

Noun

skreigh (plural skreighs)

screech, shriek.
- [1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter X, in Rob Roy. […], volume II (in English), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 208:
  [...] I'se near be the ill bird and foul my nest, set apart strong necessity and the skreigh of duty, which no man should hear and be inobedient.]

Verb

skreigh

screech, shriek.

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