Shriekfest vs Shriekest - What's the difference?
shriekfest | shriekest |
(slang) An event filled with shrieking.
* 1999 , "johnz", Statism Alive And Well In Humphreystan'' (on Internet newsgroup ''alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater )
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 26, author=Sharon Waxman, title=Hollywood’s Shortage of Female Power, work=New York Times
, passage=Even though, at first glance, a slate filled with films like “Bug” and “Hostel 2” would seem to be classic male-oriented shriekfests , the reality is that women are avid fans of horror films. }} (archaic) (shriek)
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
As a noun shriekfest
is an event filled with shrieking.As a verb shriekest is
archaic second-person singular of shriek.shriekfest
English
Noun
(en noun)- Clinton made this remark while engaged in a shriekfest against some hapless Investor's Business Daily reported(SIC) who dared ask about press conferences and the campaign-finance scandals.
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shriekest
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Verb
(head)shriek
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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.