Word of the Day - November 13, 2024


SKIRL

  • any shrill sound
  • means to play the bagpipes when the subject of the sentence is a person, as in the piper skirled.
  • the sound of a bagpipe
  • to play the bagpipe
  • to produce a shrill sound [v SKIRLED, SKIRLING, SKIRLS]
  • to shriek