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Shriekest vs Shriekiest - What's the difference?

shriekest | shriekiest |

As a verb shriekest

is (archaic) (shriek).

As an adjective shriekiest is

(shrieky).

shriekest

English

Verb

(head)
  • (archaic) (shriek)

    • shriek

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.
  • * Dryden
    • Shrieks , clamours, murmurs, fill the frighted town.
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
    • 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 ?
  • (UK) (slang) An exclamation mark.

    • Verb

  • 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
    • It was the owl that shrieked .
  • * Dryden
    • At this she shrieked aloud; the mournful train / Echoed her grief.
  • To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.
  • * Spenser
    • The ghostly owl, shrieking his baleful note.
  • * Moore
    • She shrieked his name to the dark woods.

    Anagrams

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    shriekiest

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (shrieky)

    • shrieky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Inclined to shriek, or characterised by shrieks.
    • I can't wait for the neighbours' shrieky kids to go back to school.