screech
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screech
- /skɹiːt͡ʃ/
- [skɹiːt͡ʃ] UK
- [skɹit͡ʃ] US
Rhymes with -iːt͡ʃ
Where it comes from
1602; altered with expressive vowel lengthening from earlier skrech (1577), variant of obsolete scritch, from Middle English skriken, shrichen, schrichen (1250), from Old English (attested as scriccettan) and Old Norse skríkja, both from Proto-Germanic *skrīkijaną (compare Icelandic skríkja, Old Saxon scricōn, Danish skrige, Swedish skrika), derivative of *skrīhaną (compare Middle Dutch schriën, German schreien, Low German dial. schrien, schriegen), ultimately of imitative origin.
noun screeches
- A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface.
- A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream. “Before he was a twel’month ould he had a mouth full o’ great teeth; his hands wor like ’s claws, and his legs wor no thicker nor the handle of a whip, and about as straight as a rapin’ hook; to make the matther worse, he had the gut uv a cormorant, and the whinge, and the yelp, and the screech, and
- Newfoundland rum.
- A form of home-made rye whiskey made from used oak rye barrels from a distillery.
Similar: screak
verb screeches · screeching · screeched
- To make such a sound. That the night owl should screech before the noonday sun, that the bat should wheel around the bad of beauty […]
- To travel very fast, as if making the sound of a car that is driving too fast. You've got to admire their balls. Real Madrid screeched after them: an entire herd, powerful and co-ordinated, salivating and breathing hard, murder in their eyes. So Barcelona moved the ball on, away from them. Forced back, it was played into Víctor Valdés, the goalkeeper, who slotted it to Carles
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noun high-pitched strident or piercing sound
| Español | chirrido |
|---|---|
| Português | chiado |
| Français | crissement |
| Deutsch | Kreischen, Quietschen |
| Ελληνικά | στρίγκλισμα strígklisma |
| Русский | визг vizg |
noun loud harsh sound
| Deutsch | Kreischen, Aufschreien |
|---|---|
| Русский | скрип skrip, скре́жет skréžet |
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title = {screech},
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