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Definition: Yelling |
YellingAdjective1. Noisy with or as if with loud cries and shouts; "a crying mass of rioters"; "a howling wind"; "shouting fans"; "the yelling fiend". Noun1. Uttering a loud inarticulate cry as of pain or excitement. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "yelling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: YellingSynonyms: crying (adj), howling (adj), shouting (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Yelling |
| English words defined with "yelling": crying ♦ howling ♦ shouting. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | George, what in lands sakes are you yelling about? (It's a Wonderful Life; writing credit: Philip Van Doren Stern; Frances Goodrich) I should try yelling at people more often. (Grosse Pointe; writing credit: Amy Engelberg; Wendy Engelberg) Well, my dad's always yelling about the white man keeping him down. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Calling me baby killer and all kinds of crap! Who are they to protest me?! Who are they?! Unless they've been me and been there and know what the hell they're yelling about! (First Blood; writing credit: David Morrell; Michael Kozoll) Oh, what am I yelling at you for? (Turner & Hooch; writing credit: Dennis Shryack; Michael Blodgett) | |
Lyrics | And now i am yelling dominoes (It Was a Good Day; performing artist: Ice Cube) | |
Clever | I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather Not screaming and yelling, like the passengers in his car. (references; author: unknown) How to act insane: When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot, yelling, "Run for your lives, they're loose! (references; author: unknown) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Group watching Tilghman mount horse, British (?) singing around punch bowl, Tilghman on horseback yelling news to crowd by harbor with ships. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Cowboys on horseback wrangling cattle and yelling "Yahoo!". | | Parrot yelling. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Emo Philips | I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming...They don't know I'm only using blanks. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Ruthie and Winfield climbed yelling over the side walls and dropped to the ground. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This may include excessive talking, throat clearing, coughing, inhaling irritants, smoking, screaming, or yelling. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Joe Esposito | Unbelievable. I mean, this was all new to me, too, because I never saw the big crowds like this. It was just like you see it on television. People were screaming and yelling, passing out, fainting. |
Leslie Van Houten | We drove all over L.A., and Manson was very agitated, and Casabian was very nervous and upset, and he was yelling at her a lot. |
Nancy Grace | What Corinthians said is, Without love, you are nothing. That is plain and simple. All the noise and the yelling and the clanging cymbals I've heard comes from right over there. And what I want to do is calmly go through the evidence with you. |
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| "Yelling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 95.30% of the time. "Yelling" is used about 234 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 95.3% | 223 | 20,178 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.99% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.85% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.85% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 234 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
yelling | 49 |
child yelling | 5 |
stop yelling | 5 |
obscenities yelling | 5 |
kid yelling | 5 |
man yelling | 5 |
coach yelling | 3 |
people yelling | 3 |
woman yelling | 2 |
parent yelling | 2 |
people picture yelling | 2 |
picture yelling | 2 |
husband wife yelling | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "yelling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عجيج (clamor, clamour, din, roar, uproar), صياح (brash, crying, hoot, ranting, screaming, screech, shouting, shrieking, vociferous, whooping), صراخ (brash, exclamation, howl, outcry, ranting, screaming). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 叫聲 (barking, braying, roaring), 叫喊 (Yell, Yelled, Yelped, Yelping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kiljunta (roar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | rugissement, hurlement (yell), cris, beuglement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schreiend (clamorous, clamouring, crying, flagrant, garish, gaudy, glaring, loud, loudly, lurid, rank, screaming, shouting, squalling, vociferating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δυνατή φωνή (shout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | צריח" (scream, shout, shriek, squall, squeal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yellingay gritante (clamant, crying, howling, whopping). (various references) chiot (hue, shout, shriek). (various references) gritante (shouting). (various references) vrålande. (various references) seslenme (call, calling, cry, hail, shouting, yell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | clamosa. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Isaiah Chapter 15, Verse 8 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Sunhyen gar h boh to orion thV mwabitidoV thV agallim kai ololugmoV authV ewV tou freatoV tou ailim |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quoniam circumiit clamor terminum Moab usque ad Gallim ululatus eius et usque ad puteum Helim clamor eius |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For `cri cumpaside the terme of Moab; vnto Galym his yelling, and vnto the pit of Elym his cry. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For the cry hath gone round the borders of Moab, her howling to Eglaim, and her howling to Beer-elim. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For the cry has gone round the limits of Moab; as far as to Eglaim and Beer-elim. |
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| Language | Isaiah Chapter 15, Verse 8 |
| Cebuano | Kay ang pagtu-aw moabut nga magalibut sa mga utlanan sa Moab; ang pagminatay niini moabut hangtud sa Eglaim, ug ang pagminatay niini hangtud sa Beer-elim. |
| Croatian | Da! Jauk se razliježe po kraju moapskom: kukanje mu do Eglajima, kukanje mu do Beer Elima. |
| Danish | Ak, Nødråbet omspænder Moabs Land, dets Jamren når til Eglajim og Be'er-Elim; |
| Dutch | Want dat geschreeuw zal omgaan door de landpale van Moab, haar gehuil tot Eglaim toe, ja, tot Beer-elim toe zal haar gehuil zijn. |
| Finnish | Parku kiertää Mooabin rajoja, valitus kuuluu Eglaimiin asti, valitus Beer-Eelimiin asti. |
| French | Car les cris environnent les frontières de Moab; Ses lamentations retentissent jusqu` Églaïm, Ses lamentations retentissent jusqu` Beer Élim. |
| German | Geschrei geht um in den Grenzen Moabs; sie heulen bis gen Eglaim und heulen bei dem Born Elim. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Di mana-mana di perbatasan Moab terdengar teriakan. Ratapan itu terdengar di Eglaim dan Beer-Elim. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Berkeliling segala jajahan Moab riuhlah bunyi tempik sorak, sampai ke Ejlayim kedengaranlah penangisnya, bahkan, sampai ke Beir-Elim kedengaranlah peraungnya. |
| Italian | Risuonano grida per tutto il territorio di Moab; fino a Eglaim giunge il suo urlo, fino a Bir-Elim il suo urlo. |
| Maori | Kua taiawhiotia hoki nga rohe o Moapa e te karanga; kua tae tona aue ki Ekeraima, tona aue ki Peererimi. |
| Norwegian | Ja, klagerop lyder rundt omkring i Moabs land; like til Egla'im når dets hyl, og til Be'er-Elim; |
| Portuguese | Pois o pranto já rodeou os limites de Moabe; até Eglaim chegou o seu clamor, e ainda até Beer-Elim o seu rugido. |
| Rumanian | Cqci yipetele knconjurq hotarele Moabului; bocetele lui rqsunq pknq la Eglaim, wi urletele lui rqsunq pknq la Beer-Elim. |
| Spanish | Porque el griterío ha rodeado las fronteras de Moab; hasta Eglaim ha llegado su gemido, y hasta Beer-elim su clamor. |
| Swedish | Ja, klagoropen ljuda runtom i Moabs land; till Eglaim når dess jämmer och till Beer-Elim dess jämmer. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "yelling": outyelling. (additional references) | |
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"Yelling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eyeling, yealing, Yeelen, Yelland, yellin, yolling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "yelling" (pronounced ye"ling) |
| 4 | -e" l i ng | Belling, compelling, dispelling, dwelling, excelling, expelling, felling, foretelling, helling, Melling, misspelling, outselling, propelling, quelling, rappelling, rebelling, repelling, reselling, retelling, selling, shelling, smelling, Snelling, spelling, swelling, telling, welling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | ailing, ambling, angling, annealing, appalling, appealing, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, bicycling, billing, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chilling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dissembling, distilling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drilling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, fiddling, filing, filling, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, heckling, hilling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, instilling, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, middling, milling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quibbling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rattling, raveling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, rescheduling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, settling, shilling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, skilling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swilling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tailing, tangling, thrilling, throttling, Tilling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, trilling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, willing, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yearling, yodeling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-l-n-y" | |
-2 letters: eying, gilly, ingle, liney, lingy, lying, nelly. | |
-3 letters: gien, gill, glen, gley, illy, inly, lien, lily, line, ling, liny, nill, yell, yill. | |
-4 letters: ell, eng, gel, gen, gey, gie, gin, ill, leg, lei, ley, lie, lin, lye, nil, yen, yin. | |
-5 letters: el, en, in, li, ne, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-l-l-n-y" | |
+1 letter: bellying, genially, gingelly, jellying. | |
+2 letters: feelingly, geminally, genically, genitally, leeringly, lengthily, meltingly, tellingly, volleying, yellowing, yodelling. | |
+3 letters: diligently, exultingly, eyeballing, fleeringly, fleetingly, gallerying, germinally, gruelingly, integrally, jellifying, negligibly, outyelling, pleadingly, pleasingly, regionally, sterlingly, trolleying. | |
+4 letters: angelically, appealingly, beguilingly, bellyaching, congenially, deploringly, eugenically, falteringly, generically, genetically, genitivally, grovelingly, indulgently, inelegantly, legendarily, lichenology, lingeringly, negligently, revealingly, revoltingly, stellifying, unfeelingly. | |
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