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Definition: Hue And Cry |
Hue And CryNoun1. Loud and persistent outcry from many people; "he ignored the clamor of the crowd". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Hue and Cry A phrase used in English law to describe a body of persons joining in pursuit of a felon or suspected thief. (French, huéc, verb huer, to hoot or shout after; Anglo-Saxon, hui, ho!). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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By the statute of Winchester, 13 Edw. I cc. 1 and 4, (1285) it was provided that anyone, either a constable or a private citizen, who witnessed a felony shall make hue and cry, and that the hue and cry must be kept up against the fleeing felon from town to town and from county to county, until the felon is apprehended and delivered to the sheriff. All able bodied men, upon hearing the shouts, were obliged to assist in the pursuit of the criminal, which makes it comparable to the posse comitatus. It was moreover provided that a hundred that failed to give pursuit on the hue and cry would become liable in case of any theft or robbery. Those who raised a hue and cry falsely were themselves guilty of a felony.
In contemporary terms, the hue and cry is also used figuratively to describe the behaviour of the news media, seeking a scapegoat for some complex public calamity or instigating moral panics.
Hue and Cry were a Scottish pop group of the 1980s.
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Synonyms: Hue And CrySynonyms: clamor (n), clamoring (n), clamour (n), clamouring (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Alarm | Noun: alarm; alarum, larum, alarm bell, tocsin, alerts, beat of drum, sound of trumpet, note of alarm, hue and cry, fire cross, signal of distress; blue lights; war-cry, war-whoop; warning; fogsignal, foghorn; yellow flag; danger signal; red light, red flag; fire bell; police whistle. |
Disapprobation | Clamor, outcry, hue and cry; hiss, hissing; sibilance, sibilation, catcall; execration. |
Accuse; impeach, denounce; hold up to reprobation, hold up to execration; expose, brand, gibbet, stigmatize; show up, pull up, take up; cry "shame" upon; be outspoken; raise a hue and cry against. | |
Publication | Raise a cry, raise a hue and cry, raise a report; set news afloat. |
Noun: publication; public announcement; promulgation, propagation, proclamation, pronunziamento; circulation, indiction, edition; hue and cry. | |
Pursuit | Noun: pursuit; pursuing; Verb: prosecution; pursuance; enterprise; (undertaking); business; adventure; (essay); quest; (search); scramble, hue and cry, game; hobby; still-hunt. |
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Crosswords: Hue And Cry |
| Specialty definitions using "hue and cry": Haro. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "hue and cry": Outhess. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Hue and Cry (1947) | |
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Expressions using "hue and cry": raise a hue and cry ♦ raise a hue and cry against. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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| Language | Translations for "hue and cry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | potere (ado, bedlam, carrying-on, clutter, din, fracas, fray, hoopla, hoot, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly burly, jangle, noise, pandemonium, pother, racket, rowdyism, rumpus, shindy, smash, uproar), ndjekje e keqbërësit, kushtrim kundër hajdutit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | صيحة (call, outcry, scream, screen, shout, yell), صخب (bustling, clamor, clamour, clatter, crash, furor, hubbub, hustle, mayhem, pandemonium, rattle, roar, roister, rowdiness, rush, squash, stink, uproar, vociferate), إحتجاج شعبي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | шумен протест, гонитба (chase, chasing, hunting, pursuit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | povyk (ado, ballyhoo, clamor, clamour, din, fuss, hubbub, hullabaloo, rampage, riot, row, rumpus, tussle, uproar), pokřik (vociferation, whoop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | protestation, clameur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατακραυγή (decrial, outcry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מחאת צבור, זעק" (cry, outcry, rebuke, shout), "מולת רו"פים. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kiabálás (clamor, clamour, cry, exclamation, hoot, roar, roaring, shout, shouting, vociferation), körözőlevél, hangos felháborodás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | caccia (chase, coursing, game, gunning, Hunt, hunting, shooting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | yllagh as eam (outcry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uehay anday ycray protesto em alta voz, proclamao, grito por socorro, gritaria (caterwaul, noise, outcry, shouting, vociferation, yawl), clamor pblico. (various references) погоня (chase). (various references) hajka za zločincem. (various references) persecución (chase, Hunt, persecution, pursuit, victimization), griterío (clamor, clamour, oration, shouting), clamor (clamor, clamour, noise), alarma (alarm, alert, scare, warning). (various references) klappjakt (witch hunt). (various references) การส่งเสียงประท้วงกึกก้อง. (various references) başrığma (squalls), bağrışma (squalls), bağırıp çağırma (declamation, vociferation). (various references) вигуки обурення. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-h-n-r-u-y" | |
-1 letter: endarchy. | |
-2 letters: ardency, churned, durance, endarch, ranched, raunchy, unchary, unheard, unready. | |
-3 letters: arched, carney, cedarn, chared, craned, dancer, decury, denary, dhurna, drench, echard, harden, hydrae, nacred, nuchae, raunch, ruched, unread, yarned. | |
-4 letters: ached, acned, acred, adunc, arced, cadre, candy, caned, caner, cared, carny, cedar, chard, chare, chary, churn, crane, crude, curdy, cured, cyder, dance. | |
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