Holler

Definitions: Holler

Holler

Noun

1. A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal); "his bellow filled the hallway".

2. A small valley between mountains; "he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians".

Verb

1. Shout out; "He hollered out to surrender our weapons".

2. Utter a sudden loud cry; "she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle"; "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me".

3. Complain; "What was he hollering about?".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "holler" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Synonyms: Holler

Crosswords: Holler

He said, he'll holler (Scrubs; writing credit: Gabrielle Allan; Janae Bakken)

How dare you mock my feelings when you're doing nothing but acting like a brat! First, you kick and holler and now you turn on the tears? (Rurouni Kenshin; writing credit: Johan Unenge; M�ns Gahrton)

Make me wanna holler (Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler); performing artist: Marvin Gaye)

I wanna make you holler (Holler; performing artist: Spice Girls)

Holler at me, baby (I Do (Wanna Get Close To You); performing artist: 3LW)

I'm gonna raise a fuss, I'm gonna raise a holler ("Summertime Blues"; performing artist: Eddie Cochran)

In a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler (Coal Miner's Daughter; performing artist: Loretta Lynn)

The people who holler "All power to the people!" want power to be handed to the people who holler "All power to the people!". (references; author: unknown)

Sleepy Holler (1929)

Holler (2002)

Holler (performing artist: Spice Girls)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Growing Up in a Holler in the Mountains: An Appalachian Childhood (Growing Up) (reference)

• Holler If You Hear Me: The Education of a Teacher and His Students (Teaching for Social Justice Series) (reference)

• Sweet Creek Holler (A Sunburst Book) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Hickory Holler Revisited: For Once in My Life (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Hi. Holler in Way down East.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "holler": holler out. Additional references.

Beginning with "holler": holler-von.

Ending with "holler": hoot-n-holler.

Albanian

thërres (ask, bawl, call, call out, call up, conjure, convene, convoke, cry, exclaim, give a cry, hail, invite, shout, sing out, summon, vociferate, wawl, whoop), thërras (ask, bawl, call, call out, call up, conjure, convene, convoke, cry, drum up, exclaim, hail, invite, obtest, page, shout, sing out, summon, vociferate, wawl, whoop), bërtas (bawl, call, Caterwaul, clamor, clamour, cry, cry out, ejaculate, exclaim, objurgate, scream, shout, shout at, shriek, squall, vociferate, whoop, yell). (various references)

Arabic 

‏صاح (bawl, call, call out, clear, crow, cry, hoot, scream, shout, sing out, squall, squawk, squeal, vociferate), ‏صرخة (cry, pax, scream, shout, shriek, squawk, yell), ‏صرخ (call, call out, clamor, clamour, cry, exclaim, make noise, outcry, pop off, scream, shout, shriek, squawk, squeak, yell). (various references)

Bulgarian 

крещя (bawl, hollo, hoot, scream, shout, shriek, squall, vociferate, yell), викам (barrack, bawl, call, clamor, clamour, create, cry, hollo, holloa, pop off, roar, scream, shout, sing out, vocalize, vociferate, whoop, yell). (various references)

Czech

křièet (cry, scream, shout, shriek, wail, whoop, yowl). (various references)

Danish

Holler's spekulum (Holler speculum), shout down (hoot-n-holler, shout down). (various references)

Dutch

interfoon (hoot-n-holler, intercom, intercom system, intercommunicating system, intercommunication system, interphone, shout down, talk-back circuit, two-way loud speaker). (various references)

Farsi 

فریادکردن (Screech, Whoop), فریادخوشحالی (Whoopee), سروصداراه انداختن (Hell), صدای مخصوص هرحیوان . (various references)

Finnish

hoilata (shout, yell). (various references)

French

brailler, braillement (howl, howling). (various references)

German

brüllen (bawl, bawl out, bellow, blare, blare out, bleat, boohoo, boom, howl, neigh, roar, scream, shout, snap out, squall, to roar, trumpet, yell). (various references)

Greek 

κραυγή (bawl, call, clamor, clamour, cry, halloo, outcry, scream, shout, squall, vociferation, whoop, yell), φωνάζω (bawl, call, call out, caterwaul, clamor, clamour, cry, halloo, hollo, scream, shout, shout to, squawk, yawp, yell), ουρλιάζω (bellow, blare, clamor, clamour, howl, rave, snarl, ululate, yell, yelp, yowl). (various references)

Hebrew 

לצעוק (cry out, shout, sob, yell), צעק�" (call, clamour, cry, outcry, shout, yell). (various references)

Hungarian

ordít (bawl, bellow, heehaw, hollo, holloa, howl, roar, shout, to bawl, to bell, to bellow, to bray, to give tongue, to roar, to squall, to yawp, to yell, yell), kiált (exclaim, hail, shout, to bark, to chirp, to clang, to exclaim, to hoop, to huzza, to shout, to whoop, to yammer). (various references)

Italian

speculum di HOLLER (Holler speculum). (various references)

Pig Latin

ollerhay

Portuguese

espéculo de Holler (Holler speculum). (various references)

Russian 

кричать (clamor, clamour, cry, hollo, holloa, hoot, make a noise, outcry, shout, shouted, shouts, sing out, vociferate, waul, yell, yell off). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uzviknuti (exclaim, give a cry, whoop). (various references)

Spanish

gritar (bark, bawl, bawl out, bellow, break out, call, call out, chant, clamor, clamour, cry, cry out, faggot, fagot, halloo, hoot, howl, outcry, scold, scream, shout, shout out, shriek, shrill out, sing out, to shout, whoop, yell). (various references)

Swedish

ropa (call, call out, clamor, clamour, cry, cuckoo, halloo, hoot, shout, summon, vociferate). (various references)

Thai

การตะโกน. (various references)

Turkish

seslenmek (call, call to, cry, shout, shout to, yell), bağırmak (bark, bark at, bawl, bell, bellow, call, cry, ejaculate, exclaim, hollo, holloa, hoop, hoot, howl, roar, scream, shout, shout at, shout out, sing out, troat, trumpet, whoop, yell). (various references)

Turkmen 

azgyrylmak. (various references)

Ukranian 

кричати (bawl, call, chirp, clamor, clamour, cry, exclaim, honk, noise, shout, sing out, toot, vociferate, yawl, yell), гукати (call, hollo, holloa). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người la, người hò. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "holler": hollered, hollering, hollers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Holler" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: boller, haller, helleri, hellner, Hodler, Hoeller, holar, Holec, holer, holera, Holker, hollar, holle, hollor, Hollweg, hollyear, holmer, holter, hoobler, hoyler, joller, oller, Zollner. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hello.

-2 letters: hell, helo, herl, hero, hoer, hole, lehr, lore, orle, role, roll.

-3 letters: ell, her, hoe, ole, ore, rho, roe.

-4 letters: eh, el, er, he, ho, lo, oe, oh, or, re.

+1 letter: hollers.

+2 letters: hallower, hollered, hollower.

+3 letters: chlorella, hallowers, hellbroth, hellebore, hollering, holloware, hosteller, overchill, shallower, shellwork, shoveller.

+4 letters: chancellor, chloralose, chlorellas, downhiller, flugelhorn, heliolatry, hellbroths, hellebores, heroically, hollowares, hollowware, holohedral, hostellers, landholder, overchills, phelloderm, phylloxera, polyhedral, shellproof, shellworks, shovellers, toolholder, wholesaler.

+5 letters: ailurophile, allelomorph, chancellors, chancellory, chloralosed, chloraloses, cholesterol, downhillers, fluegelhorn, flugelhorns, haloperidol, hollowwares, humorlessly, landholders, leaseholder, lecherously, leukorrheal, lyophilizer, overchilled, phelloderms, phylloxerae, phylloxeras, placeholder, rheological, slaveholder, smallholder, stallholder, titleholder, toolholders, wholesalers, worthlessly.

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