shritch

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/ʃɹɪt͡ʃ/

verb

To screech, scream.

Scrabble 15
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Meanings

verbshritch (third-person singular simple present shritches, present participle shritching, simple past and past participle shritched or shright)

present singular third person shritches · participle present shritching · participle past shritched · past shritched · participle past shright · past shright

  1. obsoleteTo screech, scream.

    For shame, but more for feare of his grim sight, Downe in her lap she hid her face, and loudly shright.

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

Variant form of scritch.

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