eek

See also: EEK, ÉÉK, Eek, and eek’

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ēk, IPA^(key): /iːk/

  Homophone: eke

• Rhymes: -iːk

Interjection

eek!

1. Representing a scream or shriek (especially in comic strips and books).

   Eek! There is a mouse in the bathtub!‎

2. Expressing (sometimes mock) fear or surprise.

   I almost got fired from my job yesterday. Eek!‎

3. The shrill vocal sound of a mouse, rat, or monkey.

Translations

scream or shriek

• French: hiii
• Spanish: chirrido (es) m

Verb

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

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.

Anagrams

• eke

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Etymology

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

Noun

eek f ‎(plural eken, diminutive eekje n)

1. oak bark

Synonyms

• eikenschors

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Middle English

Etymology

Confer West Frisian ek, German auch, Dutch ook, Scandinavian og, och ‎(“and”), and English eke.

Adverb

eek

1. also, in addition, besides