Word
yell
US/ˈjɛɫ/
UK/jˈɛl/
Definitions
02to scold
v. to speak to someone angrily because they did something wrong.
v. to rebuke or scold someone in a loud, aggressive manner. Often used with the preposition 'at'.
“My boss yelled at me for being ten minutes late to the meeting.”
“She hated it when her parents yelled at her in front of her friends, finding the public reprimand deeply humiliating.”
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03a loud shout
n. a loud shout or cry.
n. a sudden, loud vocalisation, often expressing a specific emotion or signal.
“A loud yell came from the garden when he saw the spider.”
“The sudden yell from the back of the auditorium interrupted the speaker's closing remarks and startled the entire audience.”
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Real-World Examples
“In a small room in Edinburgh, Megan Tomei is cleat-clipped into a stationary bike, yelling above the music as she leads a high-intensity spin class gone wrong.” “Then we’re into classic lower-league football, just people sitting there yelling stuff.” 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”).
Borrowed from Scots yeld (“ceasing to give milk”).
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Idioms
yell silently — To think very strong thoughts that one wishes to yell out loud but does not.
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