Shriek vs Huzzah - What's the difference?
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A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.
* Dryden
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
(UK) (slang) An exclamation mark.
To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.
* Spenser
* Moore
Shriek is a related term of huzzah.
As nouns the difference between shriek and huzzah
is that shriek is a sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like while huzzah is a cheer often associated with sailors, shouted by a group in praise of a thing or event.As verbs the difference between shriek and huzzah
is that shriek is to utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish while huzzah is to cheer with a huzzah sound.As an interjection huzzah is
(nautical|dated).shriek
English
Noun
(en noun)- Shrieks , clamours, murmurs, fill the frighted town.
- Sabor, the lioness, was a wise hunter. To one less wise the wild alarm of her fierce cry as she sprang would have seemed a foolish thing, for could she not more surely have fallen upon her victims had she but quietly leaped without that loud shriek ?
Verb
- It was the owl that shrieked .
- At this she shrieked aloud; the mournful train / Echoed her grief.
- The ghostly owl, shrieking his baleful note.
- She shrieked his name to the dark woods.
