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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
skrike .
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Th 'woman' at lived opposite wor hingin aght some clooas, an th 'cock tried to fly ovver 'em, but th' string bein fast to its legs, browt it daan fair i'th 'middle on 'em, an what wi' th 'din th' cock made, an th 'skrikes shoo made -- for shoo thowt for sewer it wor th' owd dule hissen -- an Mally's grooans, it sooin browt aght Hepsabah an all th 'naybors, an it worn't till a poleeceman coom at onnybody could tell what wor to do.
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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