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▪ I. shrieking, vbl. n.|ˈʃriːkɪŋ|
[f. shriek v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb shriek.
1601B. Jonson Poetaster v. ii, The nymphs, with shreekings, doe the region fill. a1700Evelyn Diary 3 Sept. 1666, The shreiking of women and children. 1845J. H. Newman in W. Ward Life (1912) I. 105 The shrieking and screaming of the keyhole and casements. 1901W. R. H. Trowbridge Lett. her Mother to Eliz. xxi. 100 Mrs. Dorking said she stuffed her handkerchief into her mouth to keep from shrieking.
▪ II. shrieking, ppl. a.|ˈʃriːkɪŋ|
[f. shriek v. + -ing2.]
1. That shrieks or utters shrieks; accompanied by shrieks.
a1586Sidney Arcadia i. Ecl. i. (1633) 93 Out shreaking Pipe, made of some witched tree. 1590[see shriek n. 1]. 1596Drayton Mortimeriados N 2, The vgly shreeking Owles. 1604― Moyses iii. 81 The shrill screame the shrieking people gaue. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden St. Peter 9 Wks. (S.T.S.) II. 214 The shrieking Bird that courtes the Night. 1810Scott Lady of L. iii. x, A sharp and shrieking echo. 1855Tennyson Maud i. vi. viii, The shrieking rush of the wainscot mouse. 1892Speaker 3 Sept. 289/2 The high road, with its shrieking steam-tram.
2. fig.
a. Great, excellent, splendid.
b. Of colours: excessively bright; lurid, glaring.
1926N. Coward Queen was in Parlour i. i. 15 My first experience was such a shrieking success. 1958P. Pollack Pict. Hist. Photogr. xii. 155/1 Satin blouses of shrieking colors. 1966[see Capri 2].
Hence ˈshriekingly adv., with a shriek or shrieks.
1641R. Brathwait Engl. Gentlew. 278 The needy cry, and shreekingly complaine unto us. 1877Browning Agamemnon 29 The old men..Shriekingly wail the death-doom of their dearest. 1888Meredith Poet. Wks. (1912) 367 Shriekingly the timber cracks. |