streek
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iːk
Verb
streek (third-person singular simple present streeks, present participle streeking, simple past and past participle streeked)
- (archaic, dialect, UK, Scotland, transitive) To stretch.
- (archaic, dialect, UK, Scotland, transitive) To lay out, as a dead body.
Derived terms
- streeker
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for streek in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- Kester, Sterek, Tereks, skeert
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch streek, from Middle Dutch strēke, from Old Dutch *striki, from Proto-West Germanic *striki, from Proto-Germanic *strikiz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /strɪə̯k/
Audio (file)
Noun
streek (plural streke)
- prank, trick
- region
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /streːk/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: streek
- Rhymes: -eːk
- Homophone: Streek
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch strēke, from Old Dutch *striki, from Proto-West Germanic *striki, from Proto-Germanic *strikiz.
Noun
streek f (plural streken, diminutive streekje n)
- region
- prank, trick, antic
Derived terms
- een vos verliest wel zijn haren, maar niet zijn streken
- jezuïetenstreek
- landstreek
- mijnstreek
- schaamstreek
- streekroman
- streektaal
- streekvervoer
Descendants
- Afrikaans: streek
- Negerhollands: streek
- → Papiamentu: streek (dated)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
streek
- singular past indicative of strijken
Anagrams
- ekster, kreest, sterke, streke
Scots
Verb
streek (third-person singular simple present streeks, present participle streekin, simple past streekit, past participle streekit)
- (South Scots, archaic) stretch
- Fower hunder horsemen in yeh streekit line.
Synonyms
- streetch
West Frisian
Etymology
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Noun
streek c (plural streken, diminutive streekje)
- line, stripe
- stroke, stroking movement
- region
- trick, prank
Derived terms
- streektaal
Further reading
- “streek”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011