streek

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːk

Verb

streek (third-person singular simple present streeks, present participle streeking, simple past and past participle streeked)

1. (archaic, dialect, UK, Scotland, transitive) To stretch.
   • 1802, anonymous author, Four Funny Tales, The Monk and the Miller's Wife:

     Hae, there's a key, gang in your way
     At the neist door there's braw ait strae;
     Streek down upon't, my lad and learn
     They're no ill lodg'd that get a barn."
     

2. (archaic, dialect, UK, Scotland, transitive) To lay down, as a dead body.
   • 1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads, The King's Daughter:

     Ye'll make a grave for my fair body,"
     Running rain in the mill-water;
     "And ye'll streek my brother at the side of me,"
     The pains of hell for the king's daughter.

Derived terms

• streeker

References

• “streek”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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/

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Noun

streek (plural streke)

1. prank, trick
2. region

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /streːk/

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• Hyphenation: streek
• Rhymes: -eːk
• Homophone: Streek

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch strēke, strēec, from Old Dutch *striki, from Proto-West Germanic *striki, from Proto-Germanic *strikiz.

In Middle Dutch there may have been a merger of the above noun with a descendant of related Proto-West Germanic *straik. Compare the German distinction between Strich and Streich. The fact that most Dutch dialects with a distinction between original and secondary length point to *striki does not necessarily mean that *straik did not exist (but only that they were merged in favour of the former). Limburgish streik at any rate is from *straik and combines the same meanings as in Dutch.

Noun

streek f (plural streken, diminutive streekje n)

1. region
2. stroke (movement e.g. with a paintbrush)
3. prank, trick, antic

Derived terms

• een vos verliest wel zijn haren, maar niet zijn streken
• jezuïetenstreek
• landstreek
• mijnstreek
• schaamstreek
• streekroman
• streektaal
• streekvervoer
• strekenwijf

Descendants

• Afrikaans: streek
• Negerhollands: streek
• → Papiamentu: streek (dated)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

streek

1. 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)

1. (Southern Scots, archaic) stretch

   Fower hunder horsemen in yeh streekit line.

Synonyms

• streetch

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

streek c (plural streken, diminutive streekje)

1. line, stripe
2. stroke, stroking movement
3. region
4. trick, prank

Derived terms

• streektaal

Further reading

• “streek”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011