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ashriek

adj

Etymology

From a- + shriek.

  1. inherited from *skrīkijaną✻
  2. inherited from scrycke
  3. prefixed as ashriek — “a + shriek”

Definitions

  1. Shrieking

    Shrieking; filled (with shrieking people, animals, etc.).

    • For I have swept along To foam ashriek with gulls, and rowed behind Brown oarsmen swinging to an ocean song
    • She took me through the apartment, through all the ten rooms—each with a chandelier ashriek, and ourselves mirrored on the windows—which I had never seen.
    • 1997, Ted Hughes (translator), excerpt from Part 4 of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in Daniel Weissbort (ed.), Selected Translations, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 168, It sounded like a scythe a-shriek on a grind-stone!

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA