screigh

/ skriːx /

noun

1. a Scot word for screech 1

Example Sentences

Than limmar, jad, far war wi’ aithis She ca’d her in hale-claith; And working hersel’ up to wark, Wi’ screigh like ony fien’, She rushed on Peggie like a hawk, And swore she’d straucht her een.

From Project Gutenberg

We know no tumult of the emotions of what may be called antiquarian sentiment, so engrossing and curious as that produced by the headless skeleton of “auld Gilnockie’s Tower,” as it is seen in the grey gloaming, with a breeze brattling through its dry ribs, and a stray owl sitting on the top, and sending his eldritch screigh through the deserted hollows.

From Project Gutenberg

"Miss M'Screigh, you have the evidence?"

From Project Gutenberg

Surely not, if it is your honour's pleasure that they suld gang hame; although," added Caleb, "it wadna do them a grain's damage: they wad screigh less the next day, and sleep the sounder at e'en.

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