Alison Sweeney

I always cringe when people tell me they don't eat breakfast, as though that's a good thing. Eek! You have to start the day off with something in your stomach to get your metabolism active. Also, the mental game of 'holding out,' not eating for as long as possible, at least for me, was a really unhealthy mental place.

American Actress

Colin Salmon

I played myself in an Aziz Ansari comedy, and that was funny to see how they saw me... flowing scarves and a flourish of pink! Eek!

British Actor

Used mainly in informal situations among friends or in casual settings.

Colloquial Usage

Conveys a sudden fright or surprise through sound, not a word found in formal writing.

Expressive Sounds

Often associated with stereotypical responses to mice or insects in cartoons or movies.

Cultural Perception

 Is it that it's a name that has a nick in it? Let's face it, not likely. Actually, in Old English, the word was ekename, and eke meant also or other. You can see eke still used in Chaucer's  Canterbury Tales  in a sentence like, "Whan Zephyrus eek with his sweete breeth," which meant,

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 small family having a drink a little one on the right struggling a little bit with the trunk hasn't quite got the tick eek down the others are quite synchronised you can see that

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 text to the sky Pele before and after to the groin 19th century melodrama eek a mouse

Eek

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