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单词 screak
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screakn.

/skriːk/
Forms: For forms see screak v.
Etymology: < screak v.
Now chiefly dialect.
1.
a. A shrill cry; a shrill grating sound.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.

/skriːk/
Forms: α. Middle English–1500s screke, 1500s skrek(e, screake, Scottish screik, 1500s–1600s screeke, skreeke, 1500s–1700s screek, scriek, 1500s–1800s skreak, skreek, skriek, 1600s–1700s screeck, 1500s– screak. β. 1500s skrick(e, past participle skrigd, 1600s scrick(e, scrik. See also skrike v.
Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse skrǽkja.
Etymology: < Old Norse skrǽkja, probably echoic; compare screech v., shriek v. In dialects there are parallel forms with other vowels, symbolizing different varieties of sound, as scraik, scrawk, scroke.
Now chiefly dialect.
1.
a. intransitive. To utter a shrill harsh cry; to screech or scream. Also with out.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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