skreigh
Scots
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skriç/
Noun
skreigh (plural skreighs)
- screech, shriek
- [1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter X, in Rob Roy. […], volume II (in English), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 208:
- [...] I'se near be the ill bird and foul my nest, set apart strong necessity and the skreigh of duty, which no man should hear and be inobedient.]
Verb
skreigh