Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ashriek

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ashriek
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Shrieking; filled (with shrieking people, animals, etc.).

Example Sentences

"For I have swept along To foam ashriek with gulls, and rowed behind Brown oarsmen swinging to an ocean song"
"She took me through the apartment, through all the ten rooms—each with a chandelier ashriek, and ourselves mirrored on the windows—which I had never seen."
"1997, Ted Hughes (translator), excerpt from Part 4 of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in Daniel Weissbort (ed.), Selected Translations, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 168, It sounded like a scythe a-shriek on a grind-stone!"
"[…] the ’tween dining area […] was ashriek with excited girls"

Etymology

From a- + shriek.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: a

Questions

What does ashriek mean?: Shrieking; filled (with shrieking people, animals, etc.).
Where does ashriek come from?: From a- + shriek.

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