different between hollar vs shriek
hollar
Spanish
Etymology
From follar, from Vulgar Latin *full?re, from Latin follis.
Pronunciation
Verb
hollar (first-person singular present huello, first-person singular preterite hollé, past participle hollado)
- (transitive) to tread, trample
Conjugation
Further reading
- “hollar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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shriek
English
Alternative forms
- shreek (obsolete)
Etymology
From obsolete shrick (1567), shreke, variants of earier screak, skricke (bef. 1500), from Middle English scrycke, from a Scandinavian language (compare Swedish skrika, Icelandic skríkja), from Proto-Germanic *skr?kijan?, *skrik- (compare English screech). More at screech.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??i?k/
- Rhymes: -i?k
Noun
shriek (plural shrieks)
- A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.
- Shrieks, clamours, murmurs, fill the frighted town.
- 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5:
- Sabor, the lioness, was a wise hunter. To one less wise the wild alarm of her fierce cry as she sprang would have seemed a foolish thing, for could she not more surely have fallen upon her victims had she but quietly leaped without that loud shriek?
- (Britain, slang) An exclamation mark.
Translations
Verb
shriek (third-person singular simple present shrieks, present participle shrieking, simple past and past participle shrieked)
- (intransitive) To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.
- At this she shriek'd aloud; the mournful train / Echoed her grief.
- (transitive) To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.
- 1817, Thomas Moore, Lalla-Rookh
- She shrieked his name to the dark woods.
- 1817, Thomas Moore, Lalla-Rookh
Derived terms
- ashriek
Translations
Anagrams
- Ihrkes, hikers, shrike
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