YELLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yelling mean? 

• YELLING (noun)
  The noun YELLING has 1 sense:

1. uttering a loud inarticulate cry as of pain or excitement

  Familiarity information: YELLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YELLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Uttering a loud inarticulate cry as of pain or excitement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

shouting; yelling

Hypernyms ("yelling" is a kind of...):

call; cry; outcry; shout; vociferation; yell (a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition)

Derivation:

yell (utter a sudden loud cry)

 Context examples 

Up went hundreds of curly brimmed Corinthian hats into the air, and the slope before us was a bank of flushed and yelling faces.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Always in front of us we heard the yelling and roaring which showed the direction of the pursuit.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To be compelled to run away before the yelling pack, every dog of which, for three years, he had thrashed and mastered, was almost more than he could endure.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The first was empty, but at the head of the second stood a peasant sentry, who started off at the sight of them, yelling loudly to his comrades.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had been to see Miss Westenra, whom I found much better, and had just returned, and was standing at our own gate looking at the sunset, when once more I heard him yelling.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Sometimes in his rage he would take me for one of them, and come at me, mouthing as if he were going to tear me in pieces; then, remembering me, just in time, would dive into the shop, and lie upon his bed, as I thought from the sound of his voice, yelling in a frantic way, to his own windy tune, the Death of Nelson; with an Oh! before every line, and innumerable Goroos interspersed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She sprang away, yelling with pain, and while he took delight in the smell of burning flesh and hair, he watched her shaking her head and growling wrathfully a score of feet away.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I found myself on my feet emptying one magazine, then the other, clicking open the breech to re-load, snapping it to again, while cheering and yelling with pure ferocity and joy of slaughter as I did so.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The driving rain, the cursing and screams of pain, the swish of the blows, the yelling of orders and advice, the heavy smell of the damp cloth—every incident of that scene of my early youth comes back to me now in my old age as clearly as if it had been but yesterday.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sixty or seventy of them, large and small, smooth and shaggy—deer-hound, boar-hound, blood-hound, wolf-hound, mastiff, alaun, talbot, lurcher, terrier, spaniel—snapping, yelling and whining, with score of lolling tongues and waving tails, came surging down the narrow lane which leads from the Twynham kennels to the bank of Avon.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)