ashriek

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adjective

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

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Meanings

adjectiveashriek (not comparable)
  1. not comparableShrieking; filled (with shrieking people, animals, etc.).

    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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    For I have swept along To foam ashriek with gulls, and rowed behind Brown oarsmen swinging to an ocean song

    1918, Geoffrey Dearmer, “Reality”, in Poems,, London: Heinemann, page 55

    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.

    1954, Alfred Chester, “The Head of a Sad Angel”, in Behold Goliath, New York: Random House, published 1964, page 228

    […] the ’tween dining area […] was ashriek with excited girls

    2005, Carole Nelson Douglas, chapter 26, in Cat in a Hot Pink Pursuit,, New York: Forge, page 159

Origin

From a- + shriek.

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Anagrams

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