# streek
## English
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -iːk

### Verb

streek (third-person singular simple present streeks, present participle streeking, simple past and past participle streeked)
* (archaic, dialect, UK, Scotland, transitive) To stretch.
** 1802, anonymous author, Four Funny Tales, The Monk and the Miller's Wife:Hae, there's a key, gang in your way At the neist door there's braw ait strae; Streek down upon't, my lad and learn They're no ill lodg'd that get a barn."
* (archaic, dialect, UK, Scotland, transitive) To lay down, as a dead body.
** 1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads, The King's Daughter:Ye'll make a grave for my fair body," Running rain in the mill-water; "And ye'll streek my brother at the side of me," The pains of hell for the king's daughter.

#### Derived terms

* streeker

### References

* “streek”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Kester, Sterek, Tereks, skeert

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch streek, from Middle Dutch strēke, from Old Dutch *striki, from Proto-West Germanic *striki, from Proto-Germanic *strikiz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /strɪə̯k/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

streek (plural streke)
* prank, trick
* region

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /streːk/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: streek
* Rhymes: -eːk
* Homophone: Streek

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch strēke, strēec, from Old Dutch *striki, from Proto-West Germanic *striki, from Proto-Germanic *strikiz.
In Middle Dutch there may have been a merger of the above noun with a descendant of related Proto-West Germanic *straik. Compare the German distinction between Strich and Streich. The fact that most Dutch dialects with a distinction between original and secondary length point to *striki does not necessarily mean that *straik did not exist (but only that they were merged in favour of the former). Limburgish streik at any rate is from *straik and combines the same meanings as in Dutch.

#### Noun

streek f (plural streken, diminutive streekje n)
* region
* stroke (movement e.g. with a paintbrush)
* prank, trick, antic

##### Derived terms

* een vos verliest wel zijn haren, maar niet zijn streken
* jezuïetenstreek
* landstreek
* mijnstreek
* schaamstreek
* streekroman
* streektaal
* streekvervoer
* strekenwijf

##### Descendants

* Afrikaans: streek
* Negerhollands: streek
* → Papiamentu: streek (dated)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

streek
* singular past indicative of strijken

### Anagrams

* ekster, kreest, sterke, streke

## Scots
### Verb

streek (third-person singular simple present streeks, present participle streekin, simple past streekit, past participle streekit)
* (Southern Scots, archaic) stretch
    Fower hunder horsemen in yeh streekit line.

#### Synonyms

* streetch

## West Frisian
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

streek c (plural streken, diminutive streekje)
* line, stripe
* stroke, stroking movement
* region
* trick, prank

#### Derived terms

* streektaal

#### Further reading

* “streek”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011