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Representing a scream or shriek (especially in comic strips and books). examples
Expressing (sometimes mock) fear or surprise. examples
Representing the shrill vocal sound of a mouse, rat, or monkey. examples
third-person singular simple present eeks, present participle eeking, simple past and past participle eeked
To produce a high-pitched squeal, as in fear or trepidation. quotations examples
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!
2009, Paul Gelder, Yachting Monthly's Further Confessions
We saw a frog and she eeked in terror again from the sight of it hopping near her.
2011, Isaac E. Washington, The Stars in My Dreams, page 106
“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.
2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books
(slang, ethnic slur, offensive) Of a black person, to speak nonsense or gibberish.
plural eeks
(Polari) A face. quotations examples
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.
1966, Barry Took, Marty Feldman, Round the Horne, season 2, spoken by either Julian or Sandy (either Hugh Paddick or Kenneth Williams)
Though she's a bimbo bit of hard, / she’s royal and tart. And girl, you know / vadaing her eek is always bona.
2015 October 12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian
[H]e plonked his corybungus down and turned his eek to the driver.
2021, Daren Kay, “Twinkle, twinkle, little star”, in The Brightonians (ebook)
not comparable
Alternative form of eke (“also”) examples