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▪ I. skreigh, n.1 Sc. (skrix) Forms: 6 skrech, 8 skriech, 9 skreich; 7– skreigh, 9 skriegh, skreegh, screigh, etc. [Alteration of screik screak n., in order to imitate a more prolonged or harsher sound.] A shriek or screech; a loud shrill cry or scream. Also fig.1549 Compl. Scot. vi. 39 The herrons ...
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scraigh
scraich, scraigh, v. Sc. (skrex) [Echoic: cf. scraugh, skreigh vbs., parallel onomatopœias with different vowels.] intr. To utter a harsh cry. So scraich, scraigh n., a harsh cry. (See Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. Screigh.)1785 Burns Ep. to Lapraik i, While..Paitricks scraichan loud at e'en..Inspire my Mus...
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scraugh
▪ I. scraugh, n. Sc. (skrɑx) [Belongs to scraugh v.] A loud, hoarse cry.1818 Scott Br. Lamm. xxiv, I blew sic points of war, that the scraugh of a clockin-hen was music to them. a 1826 Moir in J. Wilson Noctes Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 198 The old woman o'er the way To our cheer a scraugh gave back. 1893 N...
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a-chatter
a-ˈchatter [f. a prep.1 11 + chatter v.] Chattering.1828 Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 277 Morning magpie, a-chatter at skreigh of day. 1876 Egan tr. Heine's Atta Troll 89 Shivering and with teeth a-chatter. 1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 166/1 Eyes blinking and teeth a-chatter.
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screak
▪ I. screak, n. Now chiefly dial. (skriːk) For forms see the vb. [f. screak v.] 1. A shrill cry; a shrill grating sound.1513 Douglas æneis ii. xii. 14 The ȝing childring, and frayit matrounis eik, Stude all on raw, with mony peteous screik. Ibid. iv. viii. 111 And oft with wild skrek the nycht oule,...
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screech
▪ I. screech, n.1 (skriːtʃ) Forms: 6 skreeche, 7 scriech, screitch, skreech, 7–8 skriech, 8 schreetch, skreetch, 7– screech. [f. screech v. Cf. scritch n.] 1. A loud shrill cry, usually one expressive of violent and uncontrollable pain or alarm.1560 Ovid's Narcissus A ij b, Ecco..the dobbeler of skr...
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tammie
tammie Sc. (ˈtɑːmɪ) [Sc. f. Tommy.] 1. Name of a loaf of home-baked bread, used in Edinburgh and the surrounding district.1828 Moir Mansie Wauch xviii, Their usual rations of beef and tammies. 1890 Anent Old Edinburgh 83 The pay was [1807] 6d. a day and a coarse roll called a ‘tammie’. 2. tammie-nor...
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creeke
▪ I. creek, n.1 (kriːk) Forms: α. 4 krike, 4–5 cryke, (kryk), 6–7 crike; β. 4–6 creke, (6 creake, crieque), 6–7 creeke, 7 creak, creick, 6– creek; γ. 6– crick. [Three types of this are found, viz. (1) crike, cryke (ī), usual in ME., (2) creke, rare in ME. (see sense 7), but common in the 16th c. (wh...
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