ashriek en · ADJ
Etymology
From a- + shriek.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Shrieking; filled (with shrieking people, animals, etc.).
For I have swept along To foam ashriek with gulls, and rowed behind Brown oarsmen swinging to an ocean song
1918, Geoffrey Dearmer, “Reality”, in Poems,, London: Heinemann, page 55:[…] the ’tween dining area […] was ashriek with excited girls
2005, Carole Nelson Douglas, chapter 26, in Cat in a Hot Pink Pursuit,, New York: Forge, page 159:She took me through the apartment, through all the ten rooms—each with a chandelier ashriek, and ourselves mirrored on the windows—which I had never seen.
1954, Alfred Chester, “The Head of a Sad Angel”, in Behold Goliath, New York: Random House, published 1964, page 228:1997, Ted Hughes (translator), excerpt from Part 4 of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in Daniel Weissbort (ed.), Selected Translations, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 168, It sounded like a scythe a-shriek on a grind-stone!