streek

English

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -iːk

Verb

streek (third-person singular simple present streeks, present participle streeking, simple past and past participle streeked)

  1. (archaic, dialectal, Britain, Scotland, transitive) To stretch.
  2. (archaic, dialectal, Britain, Scotland, transitive) To lay out, as a dead body.

Derived terms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for streek in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Noun

streek (plural streke)

  1. prank
  2. region

Dutch

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /streːk/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -eːk

Etymology 1

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

Noun

streek f (plural streken, diminutive streekje n)

  1. region
  2. prank
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

streek

  1. singular past indicative of strijken

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Scots

Verb

streek (third-person singular present streeks, present participle streekin, past streekit, past participle streekit)

  1. (South Scots, archaic) stretch
    Fower hunder horsemen in yeh streekit line.

Synonyms

West Frisian

Noun

streek c (plural streken, diminutive streekje)

  1. line, stripe
  2. stroke, stroking movement
  3. region
  4. trick, prank

Derived terms

Further reading
  • “streek”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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