outdoor voice
nounDefinitions
A loud voice used when one wants to be heard over noise or from a distance, or be…
A loud voice used when one wants to be heard over noise or from a distance, or be assertive or emphatic.
- Near-synonyms: shouting, hollering, yelling
- I was using my outside voice. We could barely hear each other above the bar noise.
- My youngest daughter is particularly fond of an “outside voice.” We'll be quietly eating our meal and the Pea, who sits right beside me, will recount her day as if her words must rise above the very roar of a pep rally crowd.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for outdoor voice. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA