streek

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːk

Verb

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

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

Derived terms

• streeker

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Kester, Sterek, Tereks, skeert

Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strɪə̯k/

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Noun

streek (plural streke)

1. prank, trick
2. region

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /streːk/

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• Hyphenation: streek
• Rhymes: -eːk
• Homophone: Streek

Etymology 1

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

In Middle Dutch there may have been a merger of the above noun with a descendant of related Proto-West Germanic *straik. Compare the German distinction between Strich and Streich. The fact that most Dutch dialects with a distinction between original and secondary length point to *striki does not necessarily mean that *straik did not exist (but only that they were merged in favour of the former). Limburgish streik at any rate is from *straik and combines the same meanings as in Dutch.

Noun

streek f (plural streken, diminutive streekje n)

1. region
2. stroke (movement e.g. with a paintbrush)
3. prank, trick, antic

Derived terms

• een vos verliest wel zijn haren, maar niet zijn streken
• jezuïetenstreek
• landstreek
• mijnstreek
• schaamstreek
• streekroman
• streektaal
• streekvervoer
• strekenwijf

Descendants

• Afrikaans: streek
• Negerhollands: streek
• → Papiamentu: streek (dated)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

streek

1. singular past indicative of strijken

Anagrams

• ekster, kreest, sterke, streke

Scots

Verb

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

1. (Southern Scots, archaic) stretch

   Fower hunder horsemen in yeh streekit line.

Synonyms

• streetch

West Frisian

Etymology

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Noun

streek c (plural streken, diminutive streekje)

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

Derived terms

• streektaal

Further reading

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