"skreek" meaning in English

See skreek in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: skreeks [present, singular, third-person], skreeking [participle, present], skreeked [participle, past], skreeked [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} skreek (third-person singular simple present skreeks, present participle skreeking, simple past and past participle skreeked)
  1. Alternative form of screak Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: screak
    Sense id: en-skreek-en-verb-wZIzJ7Zj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1840 February, Edgar A[llan] Poe, “Peter Pendulum, the Business Man”, in William E[vans] Burton, Edgar Allan Poe, editors, Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine and American Monthly Review, volume VI, number II, Philadelphia, Pa.: William E. Burton, […], →OCLC, page 87:",
          "text": "[A] fortunate accident […] happened to me when I was a very little boy. A good-hearted old Irish nurse (whom I shall not forget in my will) took me up one day by the heels, when I was making more noise than was necessary, and, swinging me round two or three times, d——d my eyes for \"a skreeking little spalpeen,\" and then knocked my head into a cocked hat against the bed-post. This, I say, decided my fate, and made my fortune.",
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