different between shriek vs drawl
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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drawl
English
Etymology
From a modern frequentative form of draw, equivalent to draw +? -le. Compare draggle. Compare also Dutch dralen (“to drag out, delay, linger, tarry, dawdle”), Old Danish dravle (“to linger, loiter”), Icelandic dralla (“to loiter, linger”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d???l/
- (US) IPA(key): /d??l/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /d??l/
- (Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?) (US, paragon) IPA(key): /d????w/
- Rhymes: -??l
Verb
drawl (third-person singular simple present drawls, present participle drawling, simple past and past participle drawled)
- (transitive) To drag on slowly and heavily; to while or dawdle away time indolently.
- (transitive) To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.
- (intransitive) To move slowly and heavily; move in a dull, slow, lazy manner.
- (intransitive) To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.
- Template:Landor IC
- talk sometimes a pestilence , and sometimes a hero , mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it
- Template:Landor IC
Translations
Noun
drawl (plural drawls)
- A way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together. Characteristic of some southern US accents, as well as Scots.
Translations
See also
- brogue
- lilt
- lisp
- twang
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