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screamer

/ˈskɹimə/SKREE-mur
/ˈskɹimɚ/SKREE-mur

Meaninga person or thing that screams

Common meaning: a person or thing that screams (inferred)

Journey through time

  1. Old Norse (Icelandic)skrema‘to scare’source
  2. Middle Englishscremensource
  3. Englishscream‘to cry out loudly in fear’
  4. Englishformed in English from screamscreamer‘a person or thing that screams (inferred)’ · today

Sources & notes

Inferred source: no dictionary we use has an entry for this exact word. Its history is worked out from closely related, listed words in the same family, and we are trusting that link, so bear that in mind. Inferred meaning: a person or thing that screams. It can be inferred from any of: scream.

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Formed in English from scream + -er (inferred: this exact word is not listed in our dictionaries).

Source words

  • skrema Old Norse (Icelandic) · source word “to frighten”

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