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verb (used without object)
1.
to cry out or speak with a strong, loud, clear sound; shout: He always yells when he is angry.
2.
to scream with pain, fright, etc.
verb (used with object)
3.
to utter or tell by yelling: to yell an order to the troops.
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noun
4.
a cry uttered by yelling.
5.
a cheer or shout of fixed words or syllables, as one adopted by a school or college to encourage a team.
Origin:
before 1000; (v.) Middle English yellen, Old English gellan, giellan; cognate with German gellen to resound, Dutch gillen; akin to Old English galan to sing (see nightingale); (noun) Middle English, derivative of the v.
before 1000; (v.) Middle English yellen, Old English gellan, giellan; cognate with German gellen to resound, Dutch gillen; akin to Old English galan to sing (see nightingale); (noun) Middle English, derivative of the v.
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out·yell, verb (used with object)
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yell
O.E. gellan (Mercian), giellan (W.Saxon), class III strong verb (past tense geal, pp. gollen), from P.Gmc. *gelnanan (cf. O.N. gjalla "to resound," M.Du. ghellen, Du. gillen, O.H.G. gellan, Ger. gellen "to yell"), extended form of root of O.E. galan "to sing" (source of the -gale in
EXPAND nightingale); from PIE *ghel- "to cry out, shout, sing." The noun is late 14c., originally in Scottish, from the verb.
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