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語源 1

From Middle English skriken, a borrowing from Old Norse skríkja (“to scream”) (compare 古期英語 sċrīċ, sċrēċ > English shriek/screech), literally "bird with a shrill call," referring to a thrush, possibly imitative of its call. Attested from c 1573.

動詞

skrike (三人称単数 現在形 skrikes, 現在分詞 skriking, 過去形および過去分詞形 skriked)

1. (Britain, regional) To cry, sob, cry out or yell; to scream. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
   • 1973, Alan Garner, Red Shift

     It's not as if you're skriking brats.

   • 2020, J.R.R Tolkien, The Hobbit

     The yells and yammering, croaking, jibbering and jabbering; howls, growls and curses; shrieking and skriking, that followed were beyond description.

語源 2

From Middle English skrike, scryke (also skryche, schryke, shryke). Cognate with Old Frisian skrichte, Middle Low German schrichte.

名詞

skrike (複数形 skrikes)

1. (UK, regional) A cry or scream.
   • c 1573, attested by J. Raine

     at what tyme the said Herrison wyfe gave a skrike.

   • 1824, Allan's Tynside Songs, p. 182

     Aw gav a skrike.

2. (UK, dialect) The mistle thrush.

参考

• shrike

参照

• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press.
• A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, J. R. Clark Hall, 1984, University of Toronto Press.
• Journal of English and Germanic Philology: Volume 29, 1930, Univeristy of Illinois Press.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “scric”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

アナグラム

• Kikers, krieks, skriek