Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who shrieks.
- noun The bar-tailed godwit, Limosa lapponica.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who utters a shriek.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
shrieks .
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Examples
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The class of the shrieker is getting a teaching assistant to help the teacher with the shrieker.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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Just when we'd pegged him as a shrieker, he opens up with a straight ahead, clear toned go at Paul McCartney, with "Maybe I'm Amazed," and shows he's got unsuspected range.
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You might find yourself in the wake of a sobber or screamer or — God help you — a shrieker.
The Town Criers 2010
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Every shrieker was countered by another highly amused recipient who, it seemed, was goaded on by the ridiculous ravings of what had become an angry e-mob.
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You might find yourself in the wake of a sobber or screamer or — God help you — a shrieker.
The Town Criers 2010
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Every shrieker was countered by another highly amused recipient who, it seemed, was goaded on by the ridiculous ravings of what had become an angry e-mob.
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As for the big screen, Scorsese's most recent film Shutter Island, a throwback B-movie bug-house shrieker featuring Gothic asylums, sinister psychiatrists, and crashing lightning storms, is being touted as a major awards contender.
Martin Scorsese: '3D is liberating. Every shot is rethinking cinema' Mark Kermode 2010
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And the momma of the shrieker, she will be proud of her Trustee: what a great Trustee!
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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She must now find ways to please him or, perhaps, another shrieker will descend upon her class.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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Behaviourally, it is good for the shrieker to be among normals.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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