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▪ I. skrike, n. Now only dial.: see Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. Scrike.|skraɪk|
For forms see the vb.
[f. skrike v. Cf. screak n.]
1. A shrill cry, a screech; = screak n.
13..Coer de L. 4709 The Crystene men gunne make a scryke: Anon they wunnen ovyr the dyke. c1400Destr. Troy 910 A wonderfull noyse Skremyt vp to the skrow with a skryke ffelle. c1425Seven Sag. (P.) 491 A grete scryke up he nam. 1500–20Dunbar Poems, Fenȝeit Freir 97 The ja him skrippit with a skryke. 1548Udall Erasm. Par., Mark xv. 37 Jesus..gaue a great skryke, and therwith yelded vp the ghost. 1631Celestina xix. 190 You will haue mee fill my Fathers house with cryes and skrikes. 1891Atkinson Last of Giant-Killers 107 The savagest scrike ever uttered by a raving giant.
2. skrike of day, the dawn. Cf. screak n. 3.
1746Collier (Tim Bobbin) View Lanc. Dial. Wks. (1862) 41, I geet up be skrike o Dey. 1866J. E. Brogden Prov. Lincs.
▪ II. skrike, v. Now only dial.: see Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. Scrike.|skraɪk|
Forms: 4–6 scryke, skryke, 4–7, 8–9 dial. scrike, skrike; pa. tense 4 skryȝte.
[Prob. of Scandinavian origin: cf. Norw. skrika (str. vb.), Da. skrige. See also shriek.]
1. intr. To utter a shrill harsh cry; = screak v. 1.
1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 7347 Þe devils ay omang on þam salle stryke, And þe synfulle þare-with ay cry and skryke. c1340Nominale (Skeat) 744 Senge braie, Ape scrikith. c1380Sir Ferumbr. 1609 Loude þay cryede & skryȝte an hye: ‘Mahoun wat is þy red?’ c1420Chron. Vilod. 1671 He woke wt þat & scrykede for fere. c1420Anturs of Arth. 129 (Douce MS.) Þe birdes in þe bowes, Þat one þe goost glowes, Þei skryke [Ireland scryken] in þe skowes. c1460Towneley Myst. iii. 232 For all if she stryke, yit fast will she skryke. 1590Greene Never too late (1600) 98 Hee is such a sneaking fellowe, that..touch him and he will scrike. 1596Spenser F.Q. vi. iv. 18 The litle babe did loudly scrike and squall. a1600Flodden Field i. (1664) 8 Their names make..children skrike.
2. To weep, cry.
1905Eng. Dial. Dict. V. s.v., Hoo skrite't so when hur mother deed I thow't hoo'd ne'er ha done. Ibid., I can tell by yur een as yo'n bin skrikin'. 1977P. Carter Under Goliath xxvi. 142, I stood there..skriking my eyes out like a mammy's boy... I really cried my eyes out in the loft. 1978Lancashire Life Apr. 42/3 Second un poor little soul Did nuthin' else but skrike.
Hence ˈskriking vbl. n. and ppl. a.; ˈskriker, one who skrikes.
1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 7352 Þare salle be swilk rareyng and ruschyng..And skrykyng of synfulle. c1400Destr. Troy 10182 The skrew for þe skrykyng & skremyng of folke, Redoundet with dyn drede for to here. c1440Promp. Parv. 450/2 Scrykynge, of chyldyr, vagitus. 1599Hakluyt Voy. II. ii. 112 Notwithstanding his pitifull lamentation and skrikings. 1631R. Bolton Comf. Affl. Consc. (1640) 241 They shall never more be heard, though with much violence they throw their scrikings into the Aire. 1632Lithgow Trav. ix. 401 A scriking noyse, as if it had beene the chirking of Frogs. 1891Atkinson Last of Giant-Killers 149 Others used to call it the ‘Scriker’ because of the awful scrikes (shrieks) it uttered. 1937J. R. R. Tolkien Hobbit iv. 76 The yells and yammering, croaking, jibbering and jabbering; howls, growls and curses; shrieking and skriking, that followed were beyond description. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. x. 186 In the area of Blackburn, Bolton, Manchester, Stockport, and Halifax the term ‘skriking’ [sc. for ‘crying’] is common, the noun being ‘skriker’. |