eek
see also: Eek
Pronunciation Interjection
  1. (onomatopoeia) Representing a scream or shriek (especially in comic strips and books).
    Eek! There's a mouse in the bathtub!
  2. (onomatopoeia) Expressing (sometimes mock) fear or surprise.
    I almost got fired from my job yesterday. Eek!
  3. (onomatopoeia) Representing the shrill vocal sound of a mouse, rat, or monkey.
Translations Verb

eek (eeks, present participle eeking; past and past participle eeked)

  1. (onomatopoeia) To produce a high-pitched squeal, as in fear or trepidation.
    • 2009, Paul Gelder, Yachting Monthly's Further Confessions
      She was dangling the mouse by its tail, but as it tried to arch upwards and bite, she started to jig about wildly […] The anglers had watched a beautiful young woman dance naked beneath a full moon to the feverish rhythm of unworldly eeking noises!
    • 2011, Isaac E. Washington, The Stars in My Dreams (page 106)
      We saw a frog and she eeked in terror again from the sight of it hopping near her.
Noun

eek (plural eeks)

  1. (Polari) Face
    How bona to vada your eek!
Synonyms Adverb

eek (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) also
    • c. 1387: Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales ("General Prologue")
      Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth / Inspired hath in every holt and heeth / The tendre croppes

Eek
Proper noun
  1. A river in Alaska.



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