单词 | screak |
释义 | screakn. Now chiefly dialect. 1. a. A shrill cry; a shrill grating sound. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry of emotion or pain > [noun] > scream or shriek squealingc1325 skriking1340 shrikingc1374 shritchingc1374 skrikea1400 blaringc1440 shritch1470 scritchinga1500 shrikea1500 screak1513 skirl1513 wauling1533 wrawling1533 screamingc1540 scritch1548 skreighc1550 shright1558 screech1560 screaking1565 screeching1589 shriek1590 shrill1591 shirl1598 shrieking1602 screama1616 squalling1677 squall1709 squeal1747 skelloch1808 skreighing1816 skirling1820 sharming1823 shriekery1865 squee1938 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [noun] > harshness and shrillness > creak screak1513 creaking1520 screaking1565 creak1606 jarg1820 complaining1839 cry1873 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ii. xii. 14 The ȝing childring, and frayit matrounis eik, Stude all on raw, with mony peteous screik. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. viii. 111 And oft with wild skrek the nycht oule, Heich on the ruif, allane, was hard ȝoule. 1613 H. Austin tr. Ovid Scourge of Venus sig. C1v What may these scremes & dolefull scriks portend. a1710 G. Bull Serm. (1713) III. xx. 801 Others peep forth into the Light, as it were only to see it, and having, by a Skreek or two given Testimony to the Misery of this Life, presently die and vanish. 1727 P. Longueville Hermit 87 His Landlady..gave a Screek as if she had seen the Devil. 1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 90 Their note of anger or fear is very harsh, between a chatter and a skreek. 1799 R. Southey Dancing Bear in Eng. Eclogues 3 I would rather hear cat-courtship Under my bed-room window in the night, Than this scraped catgut's screak. 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 34 And siccan hidyous yells and shrieks!—A' the warld soundit wi' their skrieks! 1894 Tablet 8 Sept. 362 The old flagellants..whipped themselves to the screak of the fife and the roll of the drum. b. in a screek, ? crying out with pain. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > [adjective] > expressing pain in a screek1681 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry of emotion or pain > [phrase] in a screek1681 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry of emotion or pain > [adjective] > scream or shriek wrawling1533 shreaming1565 scritching1577 shriking1583 shriekinga1586 screeching1602 screaming1616 in a screek1681 squalling1712 skirling1786 shrieky1848 screecha1854 squally1862 1681 O. Heywood Autobiogr., Diaries, Anecd. & Event Bks. (1885) IV. 81 Very sick, much pained, had been in a screek most part of the night. 2. A name for some species of shrike n.2 ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Laniidae (shrike) > unspecified type of screak1802 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Shrike Murdering-bird. Skreek, or Skrike. Night-jar. 3. screak of day, daybreak (dialect: see Eng. Dial. Dict.). Cf. skreigh n.2, skrike n. 2, creek n.2, greking n. ΚΠ a1784 A. Ross Helenore (1789) 51 Ilka morning by the screak o' day, They're set to wark. 1830 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry I. 109 That morning we were all up at the skriek of day. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2020). screakv. Now chiefly dialect. 1. a. intransitive. To utter a shrill harsh cry; to screech or scream. Also with out. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry of emotion or pain > [verb (intransitive)] > scream or shriek screama1200 shrikec1200 shreamc1230 shritcha1250 scritcha1300 squeala1300 skrike1340 skirlc1400 wrawlc1440 sharmc1485 screak?a1500 shrighta1542 shriek1567 screech1577 waul1601 bawl1605 squall1688 skreigh1718 screel1730 skelloch1808 squalino1810 to scream (also cry, yell, etc.) blue murder1828 rescream1858 ?a1500 Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.) II. 37 (Passion), Though he sore skricke, A buffitte shall bytte. 1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Biiijv Theye all would screeke vnto the skye And laughe at hym aloude. 1600 R. Armin Foole vpon Foole sig. B4v The cracke made them all screeke out. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xiv. x. 25 Dreadfull spectres and fansies skreaking hideously round about him. a1670 J. Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) 588 The Impenitent shall howl, the Unjust skreek out. 1707 tr. M.-C. d'Aulnoy Diverting Wks. 374 She skream'd, she skreek'd [printed ckreek'd], she baul'd, she yaul'd. 1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 68 Her Mother..scriekt out. 1787 Minor ii. x. 98 The situation made the servant screak. b. of certain animals. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > make sound [verb (intransitive)] > shriek shritcha1250 scritcha1300 screamc1340 shriek1567 screech1577 screak1607 squall1630 sweara1728 stridulate1838 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 513 When mice cry and screeketh aboue their ordinary custome, it presageth an alteration and change of the Weather. 1613 H. Austin tr. Ovid Scourge of Venus sig. C1v To heare the night-crows scrik, & goblins play. 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies i. 32 The very magpies and jays followed Tom up, screaking and screaming. c. Of things such as an ungreased hinge or axle: To make a shrill grating sound. Cf. creak v. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > sound shrill [verb (intransitive)] > creak chirkc1386 chark1393 fratchc1440 geig1513 jarg1513 graislea1522 cry?1523 screak1565 creak1582 crake1656 complain1722 to cry out1781 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Strideo Tibia stridebat cantu, screaked. 1610 Bible (Douay) II. Amos ii. 13 Behold I wil screak under you, as a wayne screaketh loden with hay [L. stridebo..stridet]. 1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads xvi. 247 The Yoke screeks [ xvi. 470 κρίκε δὲ ζυγόν]. 1715 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Memorable Things Lost I. iv. xvii. 222 They oil'd the Hinges of the Door, least they should screak and make a Noise. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Vitis Especially when the Screw is perceiv'd to be rough, or screaks in the Nut when the Trendle is turn'd. 1843 C. Dickens Christmas Carol iv. 130 Stop till I shut the door of the shop. Ah! How it skreeks! 1904 Westm. Gaz. 14 July 2/3 The noise that the slate pencil can make in the hands of a child..can only be rendered by a word which is onomatopœic if not correct—‘screak’. 2. transitive. To cry out or utter with a screak. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry of emotion or pain > [verb (transitive)] > scream or shriek screak1569 shriek1593 screech1639 squall1703 scream1710 skreigh1786 1569 W. Hubbard Tragicall Hist. Ceyx & Alcione sig. Avij She screeketh out, why doest thou flie and leaue me alone. 1598 Queen Elizabeth I tr. Plutarch De Curiositate in Queen Elizabeth's Englishings (1899) xiv. 19 Whan..old man had skrigd out, ‘O worthi me whom nide to spike constrains.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1513v.?a1500 |
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