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Skrike vs Skrik - What's the difference?

skrike | skrik |

Skrik is a related term of skrike.



As nouns the difference between skrike and skrik

is that skrike is a cry or scream while skrik is a shock; a fright.

As a verb skrike

is to cry out or yell; to scream.

skrike

English

Verb

(skrik)
  • (British, regional) To cry out or yell; to scream. (rfex)

    • Noun

    (skrikes)
  • (UK, regional) A cry or scream.
  • * c 1573 , attested by
    • at what tyme the said Herrison wyfe gave a skrike .
  • * 1824 , Allan's Tynside Songs , p. 182
    • Aw gav a skrike .
  • (UK, dialect) The missel thrush.

    • References

    * A Dictionary of North East Dialect , Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press. * A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary , J. R. Clark Hall, 1984, University of Toronto Press. * Journal of English and Germanic Philology: Volume 29 , 1930, Univeristy of Illinois Press. * 'Scric', Etymonline.com. ----

    skrik

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (South Africa) A shock; a fright.
  • * 2005 , Morag Vlaming, Gogo's Magic (page 89)
    • I was brought up on a farm in the Free Sate a long time ago. Jong, when I first came to Johannesburg I got such a skrik .
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