The story
- Yiddish · derived fromשרעק“fright”
- English todayShrek
From the fictional ogre Shrek, created by the American author William Steig for his 1990 picture book Shrek! and popularized by the DreamWorks computer-animated movie franchise, whose name derives from Yiddish שרעק (shrek, “fright”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.