eek

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See also: EEK, É-ÉK, Eek, eekʼ, and ээк

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Etymology 1[edit]

Imitative

Interjection[edit]

eek (onomatopoeia)

  1. Representing a scream or shriek (especially in comic strips and books).
    Eek! There's a mouse in the bathtub!
  2. Expressing (sometimes mock) fear or surprise.
    I almost got fired from my job yesterday. Eek!
  3. Representing the shrill vocal sound of a mouse, rat, or monkey.
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Verb[edit]

eek (third-person singular simple present eeks, present participle eeking, simple past and past participle eeked) (onomatopoeia)

  1. To produce a high-pitched squeal, as in fear or trepidation.
    • 2009, Paul Gelder, Yachting Monthly's Further Confessions:
      She was dangling the mouse by its tail, but as it tried to arch upwards and bite, she started to jig about wildly [] The anglers had watched a beautiful young woman dance naked beneath a full moon to the feverish rhythm of unworldly eeking noises!
    • 2011, Isaac E. Washington, The Stars in My Dreams, page 106:
      We saw a frog and she eeked in terror again from the sight of it hopping near her.
  2. (slang, ethnic slur, offensive) Of a black person, to speak nonsense or gibberish.

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Etymology 2[edit]

Clipping of ecaf (face), from face via backslang.

Noun[edit]

eek (plural eeks)

  1. (Polari) A face.
    How bona to vada your eek!How good to see your face!
    • 1966, Barry Took, Marty Feldman, Round the Horne, season 2, spoken by either Julian or Sandy (either Hugh Paddick or Kenneth Williams):
      You have your Elizabeth Taylor done in half-tones, reclining on this chaise longue – that’s your actual French – decollete down to her ankles, with a wanton look all over her eek.
    • 2015 October 12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian[1]:
      Though she's a bimbo bit of hard, / she’s royal and tart. And girl, you know / vadaing her eek is always bona.
    • 2021, Daren Kay, “Twinkle, twinkle, little star”, in The Brightonians (ebook):
      [H]e plonked his corybungus down and turned his eek to the driver.
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Adverb[edit]

eek (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of eke (also)

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Atong (India)[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Hindi एक (ek).

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eek (Bengali script এঽক)

  1. one

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Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Dutch eec. Doublet of eik (oak).

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eek f (plural eken, diminutive eekje n)

  1. oak bark

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Middle English[edit]

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eek

  1. Alternative form of ek

Tedim Chin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ʔeek.

Noun[edit]

eek

  1. dung
  2. excrement

References[edit]

  • Zomi Ordbog based on the work of D.L. Haokip