# eek
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ēk, IPA: /iːk/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ik/
* (Etymology 1, also) /iː/, /i/
* Homophone: eke
* Rhymes: -iːk, -iː

### Etymology 1

Imitative

#### Interjection

eek (onomatopoeia)
* Representing a scream or shriek (especially in comic strips and books).
    Eek! There's a mouse in the bathtub!
* Expressing (sometimes mock) fear or surprise.
    I almost got fired from my job yesterday. Eek!
* Representing the shrill vocal sound of a mouse, rat, or monkey.

##### Translations
#### Verb

eek (third-person singular simple present eeks, present participle eeking, simple past and past participle eeked) (onomatopoeia)
* To produce a high-pitched squeal, as in fear or trepidation.
** 2009, Paul Gelder, Yachting Monthly's Further Confessions:She was dangling the mouse by its tail, but as it tried to arch upwards and bite, she started to jig about wildly […] The anglers had watched a beautiful young woman dance naked beneath a full moon to the feverish rhythm of unworldly eeking noises!
** 2011, Isaac E. Washington, The Stars in My Dreams, page 106:We saw a frog and she eeked in terror again from the sight of it hopping near her.
** 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:“Sorry, love, they all look the same to me,” said Dad, desperately trying to spot one with a particularly pink nose. “Armitage? ARMITAGE!” called Zoe. All the rats eeked. Every single one of them wanted to escape. “We’ll just have to set them all free,” said Zoe.
* (slang, ethnic slur, offensive) Of a black person, to speak nonsense or gibberish.

#### See also

* ook
* eep
* meep

### Etymology 2

Clipping of ecaf (“face”), from face via backslang.

#### Noun

eek (plural eeks)
* (Polari) A face.
    How bona to vada your eek! ― How good to see your face!
** 1966, Barry Took, Marty Feldman, Round the Horne, season 2, spoken by either Julian or Sandy (either Hugh Paddick or Kenneth Williams):You have your Elizabeth Taylor done in half-tones, reclining on this chaise longue – that’s your actual French – decollete down to her ankles, with a wanton look all over her eek.
** 2015 October 12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian‎:Though she's a bimbo bit of hard, / she’s royal and tart. And girl, you know / vadaing her eek is always bona.
** 2021, Daren Kay, “Twinkle, twinkle, little star”, in The Brightonians (ebook):[H]e plonked his corybungus down and turned his eek to the driver.

##### Synonyms

* See Thesaurus:countenance

### Etymology 3
#### Adverb

eek (not comparable)
* Alternative form of eke (“also”)

### Anagrams

* Kee, eke, kee

## Atong (India)
### Etymology

From Hindi एक (ek).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /eːk/

### Numeral

eek (Bengali script এঽক)
* one

#### Synonyms

* sa
* rongsa
* wan

### References

* van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 3.

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch eec. Doublet of eik (“oak”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /eːk/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: eek
* Rhymes: -eːk

### Noun

eek f (plural eken, diminutive eekje n)
* oak bark

#### Synonyms

* eikenschors

## Middle English
### Adverb

eek
* Alternative form of ek
** 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 5-6.
    Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth(please add an English translation of this quotation)

## Tedim Chin
### Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ʔeek.

### Noun

eek
* dung
* excrement

### References

* Zomi Ordbog based on the work of D.L. Haokip