yell

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A shout.
  2. A phrase to be shouted.
    — 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[…]
动词 v.
  1. To shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice, especially to express intense emotions such as anger or excitement. intransitive
  2. To convey by shouting. transitive
    — He yelled directions to the party from the car.
  3. To tell someone off, to scold or rebuke, typically in a loud and angry manner. informal,usually
    — If I come home late again, my dad is gonna yell at me.
形容词 adj.
  1. dry (of cow) Ulster,not-comparable

词形变化

yells present,singular,third-person yelling participle,present yelled participle,past yelled past yells plural

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
Borrowed from Scots yeld (“ceasing to give milk”).
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