eek
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ēk, IPA(key): /iːk/
Audio (RP) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ik/
- Homophone: eke
- Rhymes: -iːk
Etymology 1Edit
Imitative
InterjectionEdit
eek (onomatopoeia)
- Representing a scream or shriek (especially in comic strips and books).
- Eek! There's a mouse in the bathtub!
- Expressing (sometimes mock) fear or surprise.
- I almost got fired from my job yesterday. Eek!
- Representing the shrill vocal sound of a mouse, rat, or monkey.
TranslationsEdit
VerbEdit
eek (third-person singular simple present eeks, present participle eeking, simple past and past participle eeked) (onomatopoeia)
- To produce a high-pitched squeal, as in fear or trepidation.
- 2009, Paul Gelder, Yachting Monthly's Further Confessions
- She was dangling the mouse by its tail, but as it tried to arch upwards and bite, she started to jig about wildly […] The anglers had watched a beautiful young woman dance naked beneath a full moon to the feverish rhythm of unworldly eeking noises!
- 2011, Isaac E. Washington, The Stars in My Dreams (page 106)
- We saw a frog and she eeked in terror again from the sight of it hopping near her.
- 2009, Paul Gelder, Yachting Monthly's Further Confessions
See alsoEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Clipping of ecaf (“face”), from face via backslang.
NounEdit
eek (plural eeks)
- (Polari) A face.
- How bona to vada your eek! ― How good to see your face!
- 2015 October 12, Lowe, Adam, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Though she's a bimbo bit of hard, / she’s royal and tart. And girl, you know / vadaing her eek is always bona.
SynonymsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
AdverbEdit
eek (not comparable)
- (obsolete) also
- c. 1387: Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales ("General Prologue")
- Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth / Inspired hath in every holt and heeth / The tendre croppes
- c. 1387: Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales ("General Prologue")
AnagramsEdit
Atong (India)Edit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NumeralEdit
eek (Bengali script এঽক)
SynonymsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 3.
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Dutch eec. Doublet of eik (“oak”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
eek f (plural eken, diminutive eekje n)
SynonymsEdit
Middle EnglishEdit
AdverbEdit
eek
- Alternative form of ek
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 5-6.
- Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
- Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 5-6.
Tedim ChinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ʔeek.
NounEdit
eek
ReferencesEdit
- Zomi Ordbog based on the work of D.L. Haokip