holler - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhɑ.lɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɒl.ə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -ɒlə(ɹ)
- Homophone: hauler (cot–caught merger)
American variant of holla, hallo or hollo.
holler (plural hollers)
- A yell, shout.
I heard a holler from over the fence.
- (by extension, colloquial) Any communication to get somebody's attention.
If you need anything, just give me a holler.
- (music) A field holler.
a yell, shout
- Bulgarian: вик (bg) m (vik)
- Dutch: kreet (nl), gil (nl), roep (nl), schreeuw (nl), brul (nl)
- Esperanto: krio
- French: cri (fr) m, hurlement (fr) m
- German: lauter Ruf m, lauter Schrei m, Brüllen n
- Greek: κραυγή (el) f (kravgí)
- Ingrian: kiljahus, möry
- Italian: urlo (it) m, grido (it) m
- Persian: عربده (fa) ('arbade)
- Portuguese: grito (pt)
- Romanian: urlet (ro) n, țipăt (ro) n, strigăt (ro) n
- Russian: вскрик (ru) m (vskrik), вы́крик (ru) m (výkrik)
- Spanish: grito (es) m, vociferación f, voceo (es) m
- Swedish: rop (sv) n
by extension, any communication to get somebody's attention
holler (third-person singular simple present hollers, present participle hollering, simple past and past participle hollered)
- (intransitive) To yell or shout.
You can holler at your computer as much as you want, but it won't help anything.
- (transitive) To call out one or more words
- To complain, gripe
- shout
- See also Thesaurus:shout
- See also Thesaurus:complain
to yell, shout
- Bulgarian: викам силно (vikam silno)
- Cherokee: ᎠᏙᎯᎠ (adohia)
- Dutch: brullen (nl), roepen (nl), schreeuwen (nl)
- Finnish: huikata
- French: crier (fr), hurler (fr)
- Greek: κραυγάζω (el) (kravgázo)
- Italian: sbraitare (it), urlare (it)
- Ojibwe: biibaagi
- Ottoman Turkish: چاغرمق (çağırmak), سسلنمك (seslenmek)
- Romanian: urla (ro)
- Russian: крича́ть (ru) impf (kričátʹ), кри́кнуть (ru) pf (kríknutʹ), вскри́кивать (ru) impf (vskríkivatʹ), вскри́кнуть (ru) pf (vskríknutʹ)
- Spanish: gritar (es), vociferar (es), vocear (es), gritonear (es), huchear (es)
- Swedish: hojta (sv)
to call out one or more words
Variation of hollow.
holler (plural hollers)
- (Southern US, Appalachia) Alternative form of hollow (narrow valley between mountains).
holler (not comparable)
- (dialectal, especially Southern US, Appalachia) Alternative form of hollow.
- the holler tree
holler c (plural hollers, diminutive hollertje n)
- a (hurried) runner
holler
holler
- nominative plural of hol