eek

American  

[eek] / ik /

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!

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EEK British  

abbreviation

1. Estonian kroon: the standard monetary unit of Estonia

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Etymology

Origin of eek

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!”

From Literature

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

From Literature

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

From Literature

“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!”

From Literature

“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?”

From Literature