skrike
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skɹaɪk/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Etymology 1
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.
Verb
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. (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
From Middle English skrike, scryke (also skryche, schryke, shryke). Cognate with Old Frisian skrichte, Middle Low German schrichte.
Noun
skrike (plural skrikes)
See also
References
- 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.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Onomatopoeic (lydord)
Verb
skrike (imperative skrik, present tense skriker, passive skrikes, simple past skrek or skreik, past participle skreket, present participle skrikende)
Related terms
- skrik (noun)
References
- “skrike” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²skrɪːçə/, /²skrɪːkə/
Noun
skrike f (definite singular skrika, indefinite plural skriker, definite plural skrikene)
- alternative form of skrikje (“jay”)