shrieking
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
shrieking (plural shriekings)
- gerund of shriek: an act of uttering a loud, sharp, or shrill cry or sound; also, a sound that shrieks.
- 1826, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Stanzas on the Death of Lord Byron”, in Charlotte Porter and Helen A[rchibald] Clarke, editors, The Complete Works of Mrs. E. B. Browning, Arno edition, volume I, London: George D. Sproul, published 1901, →OCLC, page 105:
- Soon, 'midst the shriekings of the tossing wind, / The 'dark blue depths' he sang of, shall have bore / Our all of Byron to his native shore!
Verb[edit]
shrieking
- present participle and gerund of shriek