skrik

Perhaps from an Afrikaans derivative of Dutch schrik ("shock, terror").

skrik (plural skriks)

1. (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.

• Kirks, kirks

Deverbal from skrike (“to scream”).

skrik n (definite singular skriket, indefinite plural skrik, definite plural skrika or skrikene)

1. cry; scream, shriek
2. an item, usually a piece of fashion, when used in the idiomatic phrase "siste skrik" (latest fashion)

• angstskrik
• dødsskrik
• siste skrik

• skrike

skrik

1. imperative of skrike

• “skrik” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /skriːk/

skrik n (definite singular skriket, indefinite plural skrik, definite plural skrika)

1. cry; scream, shriek
2. an item, usually a piece of fashion, when used in the idiomatic phrase "siste skrik" (latest fashion)

skrik

1. present tense of skrika
2. imperative of skrika
3. (dialectal, Trøndelag, Northern Norway) infinitive of skrika (apocope)

• angstskrik
• dødsskrik
• siste skrik

• “skrik” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Deverbal from skrika.

• IPA^(key): /skriːk/

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• Rhymes: -iːk

skrik n

1. a scream
2. screaming

   Synonym: skrikande

• skrika
• skrikig

• sista skriket

skrik

1. imperative of skrika

• skrik in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker

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• IPA^(key): /skrɪk/

skrik c (no plural)

1. startle, fright

• “skrik”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011