eek

intj

1. (onomatopoeic)Representing a scream or shriek (especially in comic strips and books).

   “Eek! There's a mouse in the bathtub!”

2. (onomatopoeic)Expressing (sometimes mock) fear or surprise.

   “I almost got fired from my job yesterday. Eek!”

3. (onomatopoeic)Representing the shrill vocal sound of a mouse, rat, or monkey.

verb

1. (onomatopoeic)To produce a high-pitched squeal, as in fear or trepidation.

   “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!”

   “We saw a frog and she eeked in terror again from the sight of it hopping near her.”

   ““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.”

2. (ethnic, offensive, onomatopoeic, slang, slur)Of a black person, to speak nonsense or gibberish.

noun

1. (Polari, onomatopoeic)A face.

   “How bona to vada your eek!”

   “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.”

   “Though she's a bimbo bit of hard, / she’s royal and tart. And girl, you know / vadaing her eek is always bona.”

   “[H]e plonked his corybungus down and turned his eek to the driver.”

adv

1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable, onomatopoeic)Alternative form of eke (“also”).

name

1. A river in Alaska.