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shritch

/ʃɹɪt͡ʃ/

shritch verb: to screech, scream.

Verb

shritch (third-person singular simple present shritches, present participle shritching, simple past and past participle shritched or shright)

  1. (obsolete) To screech, scream.
    • For shame, but more for feare of his grim sight,
      Downe in her lap she hid her face, and loudly shright.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of shritch

third-person singular presentshritches
present participleshritching
past participleshritched
pastshritched
past participleshright
pastshright

Origin of shritch

Variant form of scritch.

Words formed from shritch

  • shritch-owl

Questions about shritch

What does shritch mean?
Shritch means to screech, scream.
What part of speech is shritch?
Shritch is a verb.
How do you pronounce shritch?
Shritch is pronounced /ʃɹɪt͡ʃ/.
What is the past tense of shritch?
The past tense of shritch is shritched.

Words near shritch in the dictionary

  1. shrinkwraps
  2. shrinky
  3. Shrirampore
  4. Shrirampur
  5. Shrishti
  6. shritch
  7. shritched
  8. shritches
  9. shritching
  10. shrithe
  11. shrithed

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