skreek

English

Verb

skreek (third-person singular simple present skreeks, present participle skreeking, simple past and past participle skreeked)

1. Alternative form of screak
   • 1840 February, Edgar A[llan] Poe, “Peter Pendulum, the Business Man”, in William E[vans] Burton, Edgar Allan Poe, editors, Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine and American Monthly Review, volume VI, number II, Philadelphia, Pa.: William E. Burton, […], →OCLC, page 87:

     [A] fortunate accident […] happened to me when I was a very little boy. A good-hearted old Irish nurse (whom I shall not forget in my will) took me up one day by the heels, when I was making more noise than was necessary, and, swinging me round two or three times, d——d my eyes for "a skreeking little spalpeen," and then knocked my head into a cocked hat against the bed-post. This, I say, decided my fate, and made my fortune.

   • 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Four. The Last of the Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 130:

     Stop till I shut the door of the shop. Ah! How it skreeks!

   • 2014, D. Foy, Made to Break: A Novel, Columbus, O.H.: Two Dollar Radio, →ISBN, page 81:

     From another room a door skreeked open, and Lucille returned with a rag and icky pillow.