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yell

verb
/jɛl/

Etymology

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”).

  1. inherited from *gellaną✻
  2. inherited from ġiellan
  3. inherited from ȝellen

Definitions

  1. To shout

    To shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice, especially to express intense emotions such as anger or excitement.

  2. To convey by shouting.

    • He yelled directions to the party from the car.

  3. To tell someone off, to scold or rebuke, typically in a loud and angry manner.

    • If I come home late again, my dad is gonna yell at me.
    • They sent another email yelling at us to get our reports in on time. (or) They sent another email yelling about how we had to get our reports in on time.
    • Nobody likes to receive an email yelling 'ASAP' right in the subject line.
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A shout.

    2. A phrase to be shouted.

      • 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[…]

    3. dry (of cow)

    4. The second-largest island in the Shetland Islands council area, Scotland.

    5. An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Tennessee, United States, named after…

      An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Tennessee, United States, named after Archibald Yell.

    6. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

yell at a cloud, yell at cloud, yell at clouds, yell at the cloud, yell at the clouds, yeller, yell out, yell silently, yelly, cell yell, give one a yell, rebel yell, Tarzan yell

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at yell. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at yell. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at yell

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA