skreigh

Scots

Alternative forms

• skraigh, skreegh, skriech, skriegh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skriç/

Noun

skreigh (plural skreighs)

1. screech, shriek.
   • [1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter X, in Rob Roy. […], volume II (in English), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 208:

     [...] I'se near be the ill bird and foul my nest, set apart strong necessity and the skreigh of duty, which no man should hear and be inobedient.]

Verb

skreigh

1. screech, shriek.