English

Verb

skrike ‎(third-person singular simple present skrikes, present participle skriking, simple past and past participle skriked)

1. (Britain, regional) To cry out or yell; to scream. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Noun

skrike ‎(plural skrikes)

1. (Britain, regional) A cry or scream.
   • c 1573, attested by J. Raine

     at what tyme the said Herrison wyfe gave a skrike.

   • 1824, Allan's Tynside Songs, p. 182

     Aw gav a skrike.

2. (Britain, dialect) The missel thrush.

References

• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press.
• A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, J. R. Clark Hall, 1984, University of Toronto Press.
• Journal of English and Germanic Philology: Volume 29, 1930, Univeristy of Illinois Press.
• 'Scric', Etymonline.com.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Imitative of the sound (lydord)

Verb

skrike ‎(imperative skrik, present tense skriker, passive skrikes, simple past skrek or skreik, past participle skreket, present participle skrikende)

1. to scream, shout, cry out

Related terms

• skrik (noun)

References

• “skrike” in The Bokmål Dictionary.