单词 | screel |
释义 | screeln. Chiefly regional. A loud shrill cry or screech; a loud, harsh, piercing sound. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [noun] > shriek, screech, or scream scritchinga1500 shrikea1500 scream1513 screamingc1540 scrivec1540 shriek1599 screeching1753 skirling1820 screech1821 screel1835 shriekery1865 1835 A. M. Hall in New Monthly Mag. Jan. 18 He fell right into the water; well the girl..without a word or a skreel (an' most women are mighty skreelish in general)—..she dashed in afther him. 1861 A. H. Forrester Fairy Footsteps 20 Presently a screel of little voices went by the windy. 1884 Baily's Monthly Mag. June 275 The shoutings of the boatmen, and the ‘screel’ of the bagpipes,..all added to the noise. 1922 Glasgow Herald 8 Aug. 6 With nothing to mar your peace so serene Save the screel of the curlew or sunset's red sheen. 1953 G. Lamming In Castle of my Skin v. 91 At the same hour every morning the whistle screel shot up like an alarm through the rumbling of cart wheels. 2001 R. Hill Dialogues of Dead (2002) xxxv. 380 He heard the screel of the axe-grinding resume. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). screelv. Chiefly regional. intransitive. To utter a loud shrill cry or screech; to make a loud, harsh, piercing sound. Also occasionally transitive with direct speech as object.The exact meaning in quot. 1730 is uncertain. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry of emotion or pain > [verb (intransitive)] > scream or shriek screama1200 shrikec1200 shreamc1230 shritcha1250 scritcha1300 squeala1300 skrike1340 skirlc1400 wrawlc1440 sharmc1485 screak?a1500 shrighta1542 shriek1567 screech1577 waul1601 bawl1605 squall1688 skreigh1718 screel1730 skelloch1808 squalino1810 to scream (also cry, yell, etc.) blue murder1828 rescream1858 1730 Gen. Hist. Turks, Moguls, & Tatars I. ii. ii. 14 Because those Chariots skreel'd much, they were call'd Kunneck. 1772 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 28/2 The whistle pipes fell a lilting, the cheels and we ans in white sarks skirl'd and skreel'd till them. 1840 B. E. Hill Pinch—of Snuff 119 A brawny auld fishwife..skreeled,—‘Rax me a haul at yer mull, my man. I'm just wode for a pickle o' sneshin.’ 1843 Universalist Union 22 Apr. 374/2 Ay, get ye gone! an we will screel, As loud's we can, a last fareweel. 1934 Punch 14 Nov. 543 Though kelpies walk both bold and free And icy winds skreel off the sea. 1953 C. Day Lewis Ital. Visit vi. 61 Again again again, the frogs are screeling Down by the lilypond. 2012 S. Soracco Edge City xvi. 104 A siren screeled a couple blocks away. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1835v.1730 |
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