ashriek

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ shriek.

Adjective

ashriek (not comparable)

1. Shrieking; filled (with shrieking people, animals, etc.).
   • 1918, Geoffrey Dearmer, “Reality”, in Poems,‎^[1], London: Heinemann, page 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^[2], New York: Random House, published 1964, page 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,^[3]

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

   • 2005, Carole Nelson Douglas, chapter 26, in Cat in a Hot Pink Pursuit,‎^[4], New York: Forge, page 159:

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

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