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Yell vs Skrike - What's the difference?

yell | skrike |

As verbs the difference between yell and skrike

is that yell is shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice while skrike is (british|regional) to cry out or yell; to scream.

As nouns the difference between yell and skrike

is that yell is a shout while skrike is (uk|regional) a cry or scream.

As an adjective yell

is (ulster) dry (of cow).

yell

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) yellen, from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)
  • shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice.
  • to convey by shouting
    • He yelled directions to the party from the car.
    Synonyms
    * (shout) call, cry, holler, shout * See also
    Derived terms
    () * yell at * yell silently * yeller
    Usage notes
    To yell at' someone is as in a hostile manner, while to yell ' to someone means to speak loudly so as to be heard.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shout.
  • A phrase to be shouted.
  • * 1912 , The Michigan Alumnus (volume 18, page 152)
    • After the dinner a general reception was held in the spacious parlors of the hotel during which the occasion was very much enlivened with the old college songs and old college yells , which transported us all in mind and feelings

    Etymology 2

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    Adjective

    (-)
  • (Ulster) dry (of cow)
    • English reporting verbs

    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. ----