yell

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See also: ye'll and Yell

English

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Wikipedia

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jɛl/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛl

Etymology 1

From Middle English ȝellen, yellen, from Old English ġiellan, from Proto-Germanic *gellaną. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gälje (“to yell”), Dutch gillen (“to yell”), German Low German gellen (“to yell”), German gellen (“to yell”).

Verb

yell (third-person singular simple present yells, present participle yelling, simple past and past participle yelled)

  1. (intransitive) To shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice.
  2. (transitive) To convey by shouting.
    He yelled directions to the party from the car.
  3. (informal, followed by at) To tell someone off in a loud and angry manner.
    If I come home late again, my dad is gonna yell at me.
Usage notes

To yell at someone is as in a hostile manner, while to yell to someone means to speak loudly so as to be heard.

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Noun

yell (plural yells)

  1. A shout.
  2. A phrase to be shouted.
    • 1912, The Michigan Alumnus, volume 18, page 152:
      After the dinner a general reception was held in the spacious parlors of the hotel during which the occasion was very much enlivened with the old college songs and old college yells, which transported us all in mind and feelings […]
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Etymology 2

Borrowed from Scots yeld (“ceasing to give milk”).

Adjective

yell (not comparable)

  1. (Ulster) dry (of cow)

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English yell.

Pronunciation

Noun

yell m (plural yells)

  1. yell, a slogan to be shouted, especially in sports or games (e.g. by players, cheerleaders or the audience)

Middle English

Noun

yell

  1. Alternative form of yel
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