yell

• IPA^(key): /jɛl/

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• Rhymes: -ɛl

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”).

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

1. (intransitive) shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice.
2. (transitive) to convey by shouting

   He yelled directions to the party from the car.

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

• (shout): call, cry, holler, shout
• See also Thesaurus:shout

• gale
• yelp

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 […]

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

yell (not comparable)

1. (Ulster) dry (of cow)

• Lyle

yell

1. Alternative form of ȝelle