skrike
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
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 edit
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 edit
From Middle English skrike, scryke (also skryche, schryke, shryke). Cognate with Old Frisian skrichte, Middle Low German schrichte.
Noun edit
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.
See also edit
References 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 edit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
skrike (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 edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
skrike
- Alternative form of skrika
Participle edit
skrike
- past participle of skrika
Noun edit
skrike 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