eek

[eek]

interjection

1. (used as an expression of surprise, dismay, fear, or the like).

   Eek! You’re drifting into other lanes—stop texting and keep your eyes on the road!

EEK

abbreviation

1. Estonian kroon: the standard monetary unit of Estonia

Word History and Origins

Origin of eek¹

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

“Suitable is not good enough, Fredrick! The baby nurse must be perfect. Strict, but not too strict. Kind, but not too kind. It is far too easy to spoil a child with affection, one must beware— Eek!”

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“Eek! More rodents! What has become of this house?”

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“What! No! Heavens! I scarcely survive traipsing through the slums, only to find my own house infected with plague! Eek! Eek!”

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“I am glad to hear it. For how could Lord Ashton and I take a pleasant turn in a carriage of a Sunday, if our horses were not properly shod— eek! Is that a pimple?”

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“It must have been dropped in all the excitement. Never mind. We found the door to Gallery Seventeen by following the smell of paintings, but inside the museum it will smell like paintings everywhere. We shall have to devise another way to navigate—a Plan B, as it were—eek!”

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