Definition of "skrike"

skrike¹

/skɹaɪk/

verb
third-person singular simple present skrikes, present participle skriking, simple past and past participle skriked
1. (British, regional) To cry, sob, cry out or yell; to scream.
  Quotations
  It's not as if you're skriking brats.
  1973, Alan Garner, Red Shift
  The yells and yammering, croaking, jibbering and jabbering; howls, growls and curses; shrieking and skriking, that followed were beyond description.
  2020, J.R.R Tolkien, The Hobbit

skrike²

/skɹaɪk/

noun
plural skrikes
1. (UK, regional) A cry or scream.
  Quotations
  at what tyme the said Herrison wyfe gave a skrike.
  c 1573, attested by J. Raine
  Aw gav a skrike.
  1824, Allan's Tynside Songs, page 182
2. (UK, dialect) The mistle thrush.