eek
see also: Eek
Pronunciation Interjection
Eek
Proper noun
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see also: Eek
Pronunciation Interjection
- (onomatopoeia) Representing a scream or shriek (especially in comic strips and books).
- Eek! There's a mouse in the bathtub!
- (onomatopoeia) Expressing (sometimes mock) fear or surprise.
- I almost got fired from my job yesterday. Eek!
- (onomatopoeia) Representing the shrill vocal sound of a mouse, rat, or monkey.
- French: hiii
- Spanish: chirrido
eek (eeks, present participle eeking; past and past participle eeked)
- (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.
- 2009, Paul Gelder, Yachting Monthly's Further Confessions
eek (plural eeks)
- (Polari) Face
- How bona to vada your eek!
eek (not comparable)
- (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
- c. 1387: Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales ("General Prologue")
Eek
Proper noun
- A river in Alaska.
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