ashriek

ashriek

English

Etymology

a- +‎ shriek

Adjective

ashriek (not comparable)

1. Shrieking; filled (with shrieking people, animals, etc.).
   • 1918, Geoffrey Dearmer, “Reality” in Poems, London: Heinemann, p. 55,

     For I have swept along

     To foam ashriek with gulls, and rowed behind

     Brown oarsmen swinging to an ocean song

   • 1954, Alfred Chester, “The Head of a Sad Angel” in Behold Goliath, New York: Random House, 1964, p. 228,

     She took me through the apartment, through all the ten rooms—each with a chandelier ashriek, and ourselves mirrored on the windows—which I had never seen.

   • 1997, Ted Hughes (translator), excerpt from Part 4 of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in Daniel Weissbort (ed.), Selected Translations, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 168,

     It sounded like a scythe a-shriek on a grind-stone!

   • 2005, Carole Nelson Douglas, Cat in a Hot Pink Pursuit, New York: Forge, Chapter 26, p. 159,

     […] the ’tween dining area […] was ashriek with excited girls

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